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A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

It's not quite clear what the latest Trek series wants to be: a rollicking adventure, a college coming-of-age story, or a ...

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Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...