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Science and Creativity

Creativity at the intersection of art and science.

A picture of a robot in a hospital room and a patient laying on the bed sick.

Tommy the robot nurse helps Italian doctors care for COVID-19 patients

Robots like Tommy can measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation for the patients in the ICU. They also limit the number of direct contact doctors and nurses have with patients, thus reducing the risk of infection.

Looking up at the sunshine coming through tree tops in a forest.

Scientists say nature therapies don’t just feel good — they save trillions in health costs

Environment
A tent stands on Antarctica’s sea ice.

Antarctic robot might lead way to life beyond Earth

A woman walks by a mural in New York.

Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

Language
A roulette wheel is spun.

The economics of risk taking in the workplace

Business, Economics and Jobs
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How Australia helped show the world the live moon landing

Arts, Culture & Media

It’s thanks to the Parkes Observatory in Australia that people around the world got to see the moon landing on television screens in 1969.

A woman's hands hold a medical tube next to a small box.

Gene therapy is a game changer for medicine — but comes with a hefty price tag

Science

As genetic information becomes more readily available because of companies like 23andMe, scientists are finding new ways to treat diseases through gene therapy.

moonshot

This author says that innovative ideas — ‘loonshots’ — are too often shut down

Science and Creativity

History is full of examples of loonshots that have been dismissed by those in the mainstream.

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Why history’s most famous scientists are usually a bit weird

Science

Obsessed with work, insensitive, socially detached, and neglectful of family and friends — these may not be the most endearing qualities in a person, but they are just a few of the common characteristics a researcher found when studying some of the world’s most famous and prolific inventors.

Magnified red microbes float among a yellow background

A micro safari through household germs reveals that cleanliness isn’t always a good thing

Medicine

Take a look around — you might not be able to see them, but they are everywhere. We are surrounded by forests of bacteria and microbes. And it turns out, that might not be such a bad thing. But our obsession with cleanliness could be.

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