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Science and Creativity

Creativity at the intersection of art and science.

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to make a crash landing on Earth this week. But nobody knows where — yet.

Science & Technology

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos 482 probe was intended to reach Venus, however, it never got to its destination. Instead, it’s been circling Earth since 1972, and gradually descending.

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

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

An economist and journalist attempts to understand how risk management looks in the workplace outside the world of finance.

A radio telescope dish at sunset.

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.

A black and white photo showing three scientists in an old looking laboratory.

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.