One Giant Leap
Fifty years after President Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon, the space agency is at a crossroads.
NASA must look beyond the earthly demands of deficit cutting and politics to chart its course.
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Featured Articles
Rethinking Coal
Chuck Nelson mined coal seams deep below the Appalachian hills of Boone County, West Virginia, for nearly 30 years before ...
Cambodia, Cambodian
This is an essay I wrote several years ago and am republishing now as part of an occasional series on ...
Science
Earth-sized planets spied in ‘habitable zone’At least five Earth-sized planets appear to be orbiting their stars at just the right distance to host water.
Politics
Health Care Debate Gets Weird, DarkThe already unwieldy debate over US healthcare reform grew stranger and darker this week, drawing in British physicist Stephen Hawking, “death panels”, guns and Nazi Germany.
Trends
A stitch in time saves more than just solesAs the recession forces Americans to put off purchases, from shoes to electronics they are also asking more from what they already own.
