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How Elon Musk Convinced Gwynne Shotwell to Join SpaceX

This story is adapted from Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, by Eric Berger. Before she would become one...

How to Remember a Disaster Without Being Shattered by It

McKinnon had grown up listening to police and fire scanners. Her father was a deputy fire marshal, and her mother was a nurse. From...

The LA Musician Who Designed a Microphone for Mars

It’s called the "seven minutes of terror." As the 2,300-pound, six-wheeled, nuclear-powered Perseverance rover approaches Mars on Thursday, a supersonic parachute will slow the...

Premature Babies and the Lonely Terror of a Pandemic NICU

In the beginning, Ruscica and D’Ambra brought their parents and friends to the NICU to see their son. D’Ambra worked part-time and took a...

There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain

One afternoon in the fall of 2019, in a grand old office building near the Arc de Triomphe, I was buzzed through an unmarked...

Here’s What Learning to Juggle Does to Your Brain

“I can do a bit of mind reading when I teach people to juggle,” Wolf said, “and I can tell you’re thinking of this...

The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of...

May I Borrow Your Covid Immunity?

But one day in 2009, while Mascola was sitting in the laboratory break room about to eat a sandwich, one of his scientists bounded...

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

Covid, Schools, and the High-Stakes Experiment No One Wanted

Reopening in the fall was a massive gamble. At one high-poverty elementary school, navigating the risks paid off.

How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?

Relentless tabulators often come off as zealous, maybe a little paranoid, and certainly no fun. Luckily, Olsson shares a house with fellow tabulators. She...

If You Are Going to Survive, You Must Prepare to Fail

What you’re doing is tricking your brain into engaging the opposite response to the fight, flight or freeze one (the sympathetic autonomic nervous system)....

Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise

How an obscure Turkish scientist’s obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future. US telecoms never had a chance.

How Cities (and Citizens) Create Hostile Environments

Adapted from stories found in The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars and Kurt KohsltedtCities and their citizens are in constant dialog,...

The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works

Even as Knapp cranked the spigot, the swirling smoke he’d seen was fast accelerating, transforming much of the Carr Fire’s enormous lower plume into...

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