In-Depth Reports

Out There With the Old, In with New: The James Webb Space Telescope

What is the fate of the universe? Will it keep expanding forever? What did some of the first galaxies look like? Why are we here? The Hubble Space Telescope was commissioned to answer just these sorts of queries – well, except for that last one, you're on your own there. Indeed, Hubble has shed clarity

The confusing world of black holes and quantum mechanics

The dramatic story of black holes is one filled with mysteries, intrigue and paradoxes. From the obscure birth at the beginning of the twentieth century to their rise in importance at the end of the past century, black holes have constantly made us question the very foundations of what we thought we understood about physics.

Wealth versus wellness: The complex world of global health

Over the course of the year 2005, nearly 9,500 people lay in bed with arsenic coursing through their veins. They had watched as the toxic drug was slowly forced into their bloodstream, hopefully through a glass syringe; as it is dissolved in propylene glycol, a close relative of antifreeze, the drug melts plastic syringes used

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