Space War Coming

from The Washington Post War in space is becoming a real threat By David Ignatius Among the memorabilia in Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein’s office is a fragment of the Wright brothers’ first airplane. But the most intriguing items may be two small...

Save The Banana!

from WIRED Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone by Rob Dunn GETTY IMAGES ON A PLATE, a single banana seems whimsical—yellow and sweet, contained in its own easy-to-open peel. It is a charming breakfast luxury as silly as it is delicious and...

Crystallizing Time

from NATURE The quest to crystallize time Bizarre forms of matter called time crystals were supposed to be physically impossible. Now they’re not. by Elizabeth Gibney Nik Spencer/Nature Christopher Monroe spends his life poking at atoms with light. He arranges them...

MasterChef Junior

from The Other Cape We’ll Have What She’s Having Posted by Heather Atwood MasterChef Junior contestant Lila DeLuca in her Rockport kitchen. (Photograph by Jonathan Kozowyk) Late last spring, Lila DeLuca, a braided 10-year-old Rockporter, quietly slipped off to Los...