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The mindfulness revolution
As healthcare shifts from treating illness to preventing it, mental wellbeing may become a defining health priority of the 2040s.
The single day of Carl Sagan
The embers of a great scientist continue to kindle light down here on Earth.
A factory reset for the immune system
Genetic therapy promises a cure for autoimmune disease.
Human authorship in an AI world
How can readers tell the difference between genuine human creativity and AI slop?
Disabled people live in the future
Technology that merely represents convenience to some can be lifesaving to others.
Rucho is the real threat to American democracy
The courts have blessed anti-democratic gerrymandering.
Sexual violence against Palestinians: Justice for victims, or silence for abusers?
No one wants to believe reports of sexual abuse when the perpetrators are on "their" side.
Cutting off the tail of climate change
We've avoided the worst-case scenario.
What it's like to live in space
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot speaks from the International Space Station.
The myth of blackness
American perceptions of racial identity are still influenced by the archaic "one-drop" rule.
Conservatism may be hazardous to your health
The inevitable result of putting political ideology over science and expertise.
Who comforts the secular?
Hospitals still carry embedded religious assumptions, even as more people than ever are nonbelievers.