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How a father’s mere curiosity about nature evolved during the Dutch Golden Age into the son’s focused scientific enquiryBy Hugh Aldersey-WilliamsRead at Aeon

The ability to stir new life into being, all across the Universe, compels us to ask why life matters in the first placeBy Betül KaçarRead at Aeon

Our planet is a tiny porthole, looking over a cosmic sea. Can we learn what lies beyond our own horizons of perception?By Katie MackRead at Aeon

Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known worldBy Surekha DaviesRead at Aeon

Dark matter is the most ubiquitous thing physicists have never found: it’s time to consider alternative explanationsBy Ramin SkibbaRead at Aeon

How the quick thinking of internationally minded astronomers avoided stamping the solar system with petty European rivalriesBy Stephen CaseRead at Aeon

The sky is powder blue, and the sun magnificent, as I stride through glittering grass and fallen sycamore seeds to Dowth, a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath. Unlike its more famous neighbour, Newgrange, there are no tour buses here, no glitzy visitor centre, and – apart from today – no publ...By Linda GeddesRead at Aeon