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The elevator pitch made this trip sound very glamorous, but it’s nearing 43ºC and I’ve been stooping around in the desert for over an hour, eyes fixed on the arid earth. We’re in the Turkana Basin in

There was a night as a boy when I couldn’t sleep ahead of a football match, too wired by thoughts of the sporting heroics I might achieve—or fall short of—the next day. While tossing and turning in my

Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exuberant world of The Tyrant Philosophers

It’s a little-known fact that Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity while doing high-intensity intervals on his turbo trainer. As he was digging in for a minute at 400 watts, the physicis

WHAT is she thinking about, I wonder?” I gazed at the little chess piece sitting in the display case in front of me. A crown sat on the figure’s head, indicating her status as a queen. One hand cupped