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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIDay 12 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a clash of titans. This mid-infrared image of...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThere are two very different stories out there...

Some years after his theory of relativity changed our fundamental understanding of the concept of time, Einstein wrote that “there...

A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and...

A week after Donald Trump won the presidency again, I sat across from Chris Murphy in his minimalist but well-appointed...

Last week, a federal court upheld the extraordinary use of government power against TikTok, the social-media platform that an estimated...

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It is tempting to think of political extremists as those who have had their brain flambéed by a steady media...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

When Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in 2017, I was about to drive my daughter and some of...