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Vision contributor Dan Cloer asks Dr. Leonard Hayflick about his argument of the inevitable relationship between aging and longevity.

Wendy Freedman serves as director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She spoke with Vision about the next era of astronomy.

Beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, and for the last 25 years through SETI, Frank Drake has spearheaded the quest to hear from other intelligent beings in the universe.

Our planet shows increasing signs of succumbing to our assault. There are many ideas on fixing the problem, but the solution lies close to home.

The last century was a time of cosmic exploration; George Hale’s contribution was in building tools that have given us greater access to the universe.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first extraterrestrial steps for mankind after the lunar module Eagle landed on the moon.

For almost anyone alive on July 20, 1969, the first words from the Moon and man’s first steps are flashbulb events immortalized in the mind.

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. lived twice as long as many people expected. The first American in space, he lit America’s enthusiasm to rally behind the space program.

Just as a soap opera will not give valuable insight into real human relationships, finding another earth will not help us understand our place in the universe.

Paul Ehrlich’s dire predictions of the effect of a burgeoning world population never came to pass. Or maybe, he says, they simply haven’t yet.

Economic, financial and industrial downturns are causing international distress; the prescribed cure creates its own set of debilitating consequences.

Skeptics question if building cities, removing forests and increasing the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere matter in the big picture of life on earth.

The prophet Isaiah wrote of a time when instruments of war would be turned into implements for farming. But today, the opposite occurs far too often.

In 1996 energetic brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke. Her recovery took eight years, but it was anything but time lost.

After about two months of Martian days on the surface, NASA’s Phoenix robotic lander is well down the road to completing several important aspects of its mission.

If new stem cells could be grown in the lab, could a patient’s cells be cloned and used to replace or repair his degenerative disease?

How much would you pay to know what thoughts are swimming around in someone else’s head? And if you could really know their truthfulness how much more would you pay?

NASA’s robotic spacecraft Phoenix’s Martian mission is to look for evidence of organic molecules and the history of a habitable environment in the planet’s past.

Until recently it was generally thought that we are incapable of producing new brain cells after early childhood.

As neuroscience develops tests for particular psychological traits and medical predispositions in individuals, what moral values will govern such information?