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For the most part, we don’t hunt whales anymore, but we’re still killing them—mostly by driving ships into them. One... more

On Christmas Day, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit a million miles from Earth—a huge and... more

People use all kinds of words to describe Elon Musk, from “genius” to “megalomaniac,” from “visionary” to “erratic”—but now there’s... more

In April 1978, MIT professor Amar Bose was flying home to Boston from Switzerland. But when he tried to listen... more

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