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LINDY ELKINS-TANTON | Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution.

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author

AVI LOEB | In the Fall of 2017, atop the dormant volcano Heleakalā, in Maui, Hawaii, Pan-STARRS, a state-of-the-art network of telescopes

PHILIP BALL | But for me, it just feels like it’s too good an opportunity to waste not to broaden my horizons with every book I write.

PHILIP BALL | Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world, using it to formulate theories and hypotheses

PHILIP BALL | The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble.

PETER HARRISON | Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and it affects all of us.