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Up in the Air
Entrepreneurs predict there will soon be thousands of us living and working in space. Our correspondent takes off to see what a zero-gravity future feels like
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Life Without End
Backed by the digital fortunes of Silicon Valley, biotech companies are brazenly setting out to “cure” aging. But can human mortality really be hacked?
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Designing Tomorrow
A power plant you can ski down? Star architect Bjarke Ingels makes the improbable concrete. Now he’s stirring debate with a bold plan for America’s museum
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Thinking Outside the Bots
In the world’s most futuristic city, a tech-obsessed novelist confronts the invasion of mesmerizing machines
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Global Ambition
A towering tribute to the future past—and one man’s ego
Launched Into Memory
Strangely evocative traces of America’s heroic extraterrestrial journeys
The First Shock Jock
Newly discovered tapes resurrect the angry ghost of Joe Pyne, the original outrageous talk show host
Chariot of Fire
A jet-powered car tore up the track and dazzled fans at the Indianapolis 500—and then vanished
The Surprising Power of 400-Year-Old Paintings
The detective novelist offers his picks for movies, tv shows and Twitter accounts to follow
Lucky Break
A young girl’s mishap led to the popular remedy bacitracin
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