Can We Find Another Earth?
NASA is betting that we can, and a team of Princeton astronomers has a clever design for a telescope that could do it within 20 years
by Michael D. Lemonick
Science's Favorite New Technology
How did we track ocean whirlpools, monitor volcanoes, predict earthquakes, and watch suspension bridges bend before GPS?
Body, Cure Thyself
The huge promise of genetic medicine is to cure the diseases we were born to inherit. Researchers seem so very close to a breakthrough, yet not one single experiment has worked—yet
First to Ride
Archaeologist Sandra Olsen doesn't care much for living horses—it's their bones she likes. And no wonder: they may have led her to one of the most important finds in the history of humankind
Sailing the Sea of Life
For centuries the Sargasso was seen as a desert drifting in an ocean. Now scientists are rediscovering it as a nursery of biodiversity
Einstein and Gödel
Oh, to be a fly on a textbook when the century's greatest physicist walked home from work with its most influential mathematician