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"Have you noticed this, that everyone’s trying to get back to the Moon for some reason? NASA’s Artemis, China’s Chang’e, India’s Chandrayaan, and even private ventures like Odysseus. Governments and companies worldwide are racing to get up there. But what’s changed since the Apollo era? What happened to getting to Mars? And how close are we?"
Jon Lee Andrade
Illustration by Jenny Meng
"A pillar of society that has a deep influence on cultural shifts is food and nutrition. In the second article of this series exploring South Asians’ predisposition to CVD, food is used as a pivot to explore and summarize how nutrition has shifted over the centuries, affecting cardiovascular risk."
Nishant Panicker
Illustration by Krithi Vijay Kumar
"The pursuit of a cure for cancer dates back to ancient times. Early civilizations tried everything from surgical removal to heat therapy – methods not entirely unlike those we still use today. Thus, it might seem like we haven’t made much progress, but in reality, the last 150 years have brought significant advancements in our understanding of cancer and how to treat it. Still, the fight is far from over."
Christen Snyder
"Climate change, water scarcity, and shifting pest populations aren’t just stressors—they’re symptoms of a deeper instability. And ironically, agriculture isn’t just suffering from these threats—it’s helping drive them. From greenhouse gas emissions and soil depletion to the draining of rivers and aquifers, our farming systems are extracting more than they can sustain. So the question isn’t just how we grow food—but how we rethink the very foundation of agriculture for a world in crisis."
Anonymous
"When a trait is conserved across multiple species, it’s usually a sign that it’s highly beneficial for survival. A trait that is conserved between every species to have ever existed, then, must be entirely essential for functional life on this planet. Interestingly, though, the “unchangeable trait” here likely has nothing to do with which enantiomer we use. Rather, it’s probably just important that we picked only one and stuck with it. That means, in theory, life could exist that functions perfectly using the exact mirror image of our building blocks: so-called mirror life, based on left-handed nucleic acids and right-handed amino acids."
Brendan Gallagher
Illustration by Swapnil Keshari
"Science has this view of being fact or fiction, black and white; very rigid results. This is both true and false. In politics, we see science being used as a tool to say “This is fact and therefore you have to agree with me.” It is so much more than that. I think we’ve forgotten just how awe-inspiring science really is… It’s more than just data and results. It’s a way of seeing the world."
Mary Cundiff
Illustration by Sarah Boothman
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