We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.

What's up with chicks and science?

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Let's create a World's Fair that captures everybody's visions of tomorrow together and let's celebrate that vision. Let's have articles on it with illustrators imagining how we'd be living differently.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.