A NASA commander’s most important system wasn’t a computer. It was the crew.

Melroy stressed that her primary focus in command was on the team not the technology. “As a commander I needed to know about ...
The New York Times

How Shutdown Gridlock Could Impede Disaster Preparedness

Turmoil in Washington is distracting from efforts to fix a flood insurance gap and replenish a key disaster relief fund. By Scott Dance A government shutdown is converging with key deadlines for ...
The Conversation

Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...
The Nation

Trump, Like Sauron, Is Not Inevitable—but Only if We Refuse Despair

J.R.R. Tolkien has a message for us: Don’t give in to Trump. To many Middle-earth politicos, Sauron’s victory once seemed beyond doubt. When I started rereading The Lord of the Rings, I wasn’t looking ...