NASA

Whopping cuts unveiled in budget proposal undermine United States’ leadership in science and technology

German physicist Christiane Heinicke is spending one year as a pretend-astronaut in a Mars simulation. She talks to Science|Business about her motivation for helping to prepare humans mentally for an historic journey to the red planet

Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists that will prepare scientists for an era when machines become smarter than people.