Author: Monica Parker

The Dragonfly telescope is pushing the boundaries of small-scale observational astronomy.

The 2008 financial crisis taught me about the illusion of control, and how to give it up.

Stress hormones in breast milk may help prepare us for a turbulent world.

Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way.

The paleoanthropologist makes no apologies for going his own way.

Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring.

The psychological power of narrative.

In the United States alone more than 120,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, and many will die before their turns come. What if they didn’t have to wait, because doctors could print out replacement organs on demand? That’s the ultimate goal of bioprinting, a seemingly sci-fi spinoff of the burgeoning industry of 3D printers. […]

Thirty thousand years ago, a woolly mammoth in Siberia shed a giant virus. It soon became encased in ice and, for tens of thousands of years, the virus slept. As global temperatures warm and the permafrost begins to melt, the virus stirs. It is sucked into the nostril of a researcher where it injects its […]

A look inside NASA’s Ames Research Center.