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95 - The real 'Project Hail Mary': Looking for E.T.

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95 - The real 'Project Hail Mary': Looking for E.T.

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The real 'Project Hail Mary': Looking for E.T.

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'Rocket Dreams' and rocket realities

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Dinosaur facts vs. fiction in 'Jurassic World Rebirth'

How the Rubin Observatory will change astronomy

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How dictators use tech in fact and fiction

How humans will be reinvented for life in space

Mary Roach on the science of space sex

Scientists dream up solar system adventures

Will AI cross the line into personhood?

How to defend against disinformation

Hard science fiction explained

Authors of 'The Expanse' create their next saga

OpenScope focuses on the mind's mysteries

The fact and fiction of moonshot marketing

David Ignatius on satellite wars and 'Phantom Orbit'

How a sci-fi star blazed a trail for diversity

How de-extinction could change our destiny

Get a reality check on the search for aliens

Bonus: Talking fiction with Nathaniel Rich

Exploring 'The New World on Mars'

What's so mesmerizing about the multiverse?

Rowing tech picks up the pace

'Don't Look Up': A comedy about cosmic threats

Cat Rambo explains how to launch a space opera

Neal Stephenson on the metaverse and the climate crisis

Fact and fiction in the billionaire space race

Octavia E. Butler's classic sci-fi reborn as graphic novel

The meaning of life, death ... and black holes

Outer space gets stripped down in 'Voyagers'

Why Michio Kaku believes the God Equation will be our salvation

Are we killing nature, or creating a 'Second Nature'?

Is 'Machinehood' in our future?

Annalee Newitz on 'Four Lost Cities'

Michael Mann on 'The New Climate War'

'Greenland' spotlights cosmic doom

Sci-fi master Ted Chiang on AI, time travel and more

Kim Stanley Robinson on 'Ministry for the Future'

'Cyber Republic' and democracy's future

How the stars gave birth to 'The Human Cosmos'

Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan talks about Tesla

Can AI become conscious?

What's wrong with a city on Mars?

Why women scientists missed out on fame

'The Creator' gets an AI reality check

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