The Trump paradox: Boasting about the Artemis mission while demanding deep cuts to NASA’s budget
The White House is trying to cut investment in science, including 23% in funding for the space agency, which would have to cancel 40 missions
Nathalie Cabrol, astrobiologist: ‘It’s an achievement of science to admit we don’t know what life is’
The French-American scientist heads the Carl Sagan Center and researches the potential for humans to inhabit the extreme environments of our galaxy
The neuroscientist who had a near-death experience and now investigates the afterlife: ‘There’s no evidence it doesn’t exist’
After publishing more than 100 articles in scientific journals, Álex Gómez Marín has shut down his animal lab and now works with hospitals to study human consciousness
More educated, healthier... better? What science says about voracious readers
Various studies have attempted, without success, to analyze whether reading can increase our empathy. The evidence is clearer regarding its power to enhance culture and mental health
First observation of a star’s interior opens unprecedented window into the birth of matter
The discovery of an unusual stellar explosion confirms the existence of a ‘cosmic onion’ with layers of chemical elements inside each star
The wormhole that changed a novel
One day in the spring of 1985, Carl Sagan telephoned his colleague Kip Thorne at his office in the Norman Bridge laboratory at Caltech in order to do research for the novel he was writing
Explaining the world to an alien
A disk with images and sounds from our planet was sent out on the two ‘Voyager’ probes, as well as a recording of a person’s thoughts, in case aliens can read brain waves
A guide for aliens: how to interpret the messages sent from Earth in the Pioneer and Voyager space probes
Four planetary probes were launched in the 1970s, carrying information about Earth. This was in case – in the very distant future – they were to fall into the hands of an extraterrestrial civilization
‘Cosmos’: Carl Sagan was right (and we didn’t pay much attention to him)
The narrator explored the universe in the 1980 series with charisma, using raw visual effects and the music of Vangelis. He spoke of other worlds that can teach us about our own. Decades later, the program has aged remarkably well
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