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We doubled human lifespans in the last 200 years. Can we do it again?

“Over the last 10 or 15 years, scientists have really started to understand the fundamental underlying biology of the aging process. And they broke this down into 12 hallmarks of aging.”

A field of galaxies in deep space, featuring a bright spiral galaxy at the lower right with a stellar stream escaping the galaxy, and a large, bright red star at the upper left.

Starts With A Bang

Astounding stream of stars caught escaping from nearby galaxy

Stellar streams are faint trails of stars that appear to "stream" out of galaxies. A new one, escaping galaxy M61, may point to many others.

Ethan Siegel

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What Steve Jobs learned from Shakespeare’s King Lear

How did Jobs revolutionize tech, not once but continually? Aspiring innovators — and today's Apple — should look to The Bard and seek out singularity.

Angus Fletcher

Three side-by-side images show different views of the Red Spider Nebula in space, captured by JWST, with a bright center and colorful gases in orange, green, and blue against a backdrop of stars.

Starts With A Bang

The Red Spider Nebula gets its JWST glow-up

When dying, Sun-like stars have binary companions, spectacular sights arise from the ionization. JWST spots the Red Spider Nebula in action!

Ethan Siegel

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The truth of Ancient Rome hides under its myth of decadence

“Everyone's image of [Ancient Rome] is based on modern movies. In some ways, I think those were rather impressive, but they got some things terribly wrong.”

Mary Beard