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How the largest digital camera ever made is revolutionizing our view of space

Last Thursday, I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a...

28.06.2025 20

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5 reasons to be grateful for air conditioning

Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most important invention of the 20th century was. He didn’t say...

21.06.2025 10

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The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias

Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started at the moment of birth. In ancient Athens, at a...

15.06.2025 20

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We’re secretly winning the war on cancer

On November 4, 2003, a doctor gave Jon Gluck some of the worst news imaginable: He had cancer — one that later tests would reveal as multiple...

07.06.2025 10

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These stories could change how you feel about AI

Here’s a selection of recent headlines about artificial intelligence, picked more or less at random: For some recent graduates, the AI job...

31.05.2025 60

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The US is squandering its two most important privileges

In 1965, then-French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing came up with the “mot juste” for describing the way that the supremacy of the...

28.05.2025 40

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The case against summer

Close your eyes and think of the word “summer.” What comes to mind? Is it long days at the beach, a drink in one hand and a book in the other,...

26.05.2025 50

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Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war

The first observance of what came to be known as Memorial Day was on May 30, 1868, when a Civil War general called on Americans to commemorate the...

26.05.2025 40

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Something remarkable is happening with violent crime rates in the US

The astounding drop in violent crime that began in the 1990s and extended through the mid-2010s is one of the most important — and most...

24.05.2025 20

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How the US turned the tide on drug overdose deaths

In 2020 and 2021, before I came to Vox, I worked as the future correspondent at Axios — yes, that was the actual job title — and I found myself...

17.05.2025 40

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Americans are dying younger. 5 science-based tips could reverse the trend.

After more than a century of steady, upward climb, US life expectancy hit 78.9 years in 2015. Since then, it’s been mostly downhill. US life...

11.05.2025 10

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The life-or-death case for self-driving cars

I have some bad news: You are almost certainly a worse driver than you think you are.  Humans drive distracted. They drive drowsy. They drive angry....

04.05.2025 10

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5 ways we’re making progress on climate change

A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Any time I try to convince skeptical people that the world...

26.04.2025 30

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How commerce became our most powerful tool against global poverty

A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star...

12.04.2025 8

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The slow death of American science has already begun

In Ezra Klein and Derk Thompson’s new book Abundance — which maybe you’ve heard of — they tell the story of Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian...

09.04.2025 5

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Could an inexpensive vaccine help stave off dementia?

Anyone who has watched a loved one descend into the fog of dementia knows the tremendous toll that neurodegenerative diseases of aging can exact. ...

05.04.2025 10

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The most important number in the world

I was an English major in college, and my favorite poet was the first-generation Romantic William Wordsworth. For one thing, there’s the name, the...

29.03.2025 2

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Zero-sum politics is destroying America. We can build a way out.

If you’re anything like me — a policy dork who spends too much time on X — you’ve been unable to escape discussion of a new book called...

22.03.2025 8

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The Covid pandemic was catastrophic. But don’t overlook what went right.

For most people, the Covid-19 pandemic, which officially began five years ago this month, marked their first encounter with case counts and N-95 masks...

15.03.2025 9

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Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.

In 2012, astronaut Ron Garan did an AMA on Reddit. In between questions about aliens (he didn’t see any in space) and where his coffee came from...

08.03.2025 6

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The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?

There’s a thought experiment that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build an artificial intelligence...

05.03.2025 10

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We’re all drawn to bad news. Here’s how to fight it.

Welcome to the first edition of Good News, the weekly newsletter dedicated to covering the remarkable, optimistic things happening all around us. Now,...

01.03.2025 4

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The AI that apparently wants Elon Musk to die

Here’s a very naive and idealistic account of how companies train their AI models: They want to create the most useful and powerful model possible,...

28.02.2025 10

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What’s behind Trump’s colonial dreams?

On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump shocked the world with a proposal that was, even by his standards, totally out of the blue: that all...

06.02.2025 6

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The Doomsday Clock is running out of time

On Sunday afternoon, I went to the National Football Conference championship game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. At one point early in...

29.01.2025 10

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There are no “acts of God” anymore

Why do disasters happen? The ancient Greeks had an all-purpose explanation, as I’ve been learning from my Greek myth-mad 7-year-old son: the gods....

22.01.2025 10

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Your brain is lying to you about the “good old days”

Vox reader Dov Stein asks: Why do people think the past was so much better when so many things have drastically improved? That’s an excellent...

15.01.2025 30

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The 14 predictions that came true in 2024 — and the 10 that didn’t

Making predictions is a tricky business, and here at Future Perfect, we don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. But we do think there’s real...

30.12.2024 3

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9 actually good things that happened in 2024

The media does not give you an accurate picture of the world. This isn’t to say that we’re not reporting the truth or that we’re making facts up....

26.12.2024 8

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The 10(ish) most read Future Perfect stories of 2024

It’s that time of year. As Future Perfect has in the past, we’re rounding up our most read stories of the year. This little trip down memory lane...

24.12.2024 7

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The drone hysteria is a glimpse of the future

If, like me, you live in the Northeast, you’ve likely found it impossible to escape the story of the month. No, not the killing of a major...

18.12.2024 7

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How Christopher Nolan made the threat of nuclear extinction feel real

21.11.2024 4

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The system failed us. We’ll still miss it when it’s gone.

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How progress creates its own obstacles

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Paris reminded us why we love the Olympics

09.08.2024 2

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Is there an AI bubble — and is it about to pop?

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