Robert Sapolsky was 14 when he decided there was no such thing as free will. It was late at night, and the realization came all at once: no God, no cosmic plan, no hidden hand steering the world—just biology and chance. “It was this big, empty, indifferent universe,” he remembers. For most teenagers, that kind…
Nearly half a century after leaving Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching a milestone unlike any in human history. Within the next two years, it will become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one full light-day from Earth—the span light travels in 24 hours, or roughly 16 billion miles (25.7 billion…
U.S. Signals Further Military Action Against Drug Smuggling in Caribbean Washington, D.C. — At a press conference in Mexico City on Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the U.S. would continue using military force to disrupt drug trafficking in the Caribbean—marking a sharp escalation in a region already feeling the effects of heightened…
