// Long Reads
Articles
Consciousness · Physics
Deep Structure
A 13.8-billion-year universe spent almost all of its history in silence. Then, in its final fraction of a second, something woke up and began to understand.
Astrophysics · Space Travel
The Science of Project Hail Mary
Tau Ceti is 11.9 light years away. Ryland Grace gets there in four years. So is the movie just breaking the laws of physics? Not at all.