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June 2017

Features

A mid-air tourist flight. The author is second from the left.

Up in the Air

Entrepreneurs predict there will soon be thousands of us living and working in space. Our correspondent takes off to see what a zero-gravity future feels like

Charles Fishman

Aubrey de Grey says, “There’s no such thing as aging gracefully.”

Life Without End

Backed by the digital fortunes of Silicon Valley, biotech companies are brazenly setting out to “cure” aging. But can human mortality really be hacked?

Elmo Keep

Designing Tomorrow

A power plant you can ski down? Star architect Bjarke Ingels makes the improbable concrete. Now he’s stirring debate with a bold plan for America’s museum

Justin Davidson

Thinking Outside the Bots

In the world’s most futuristic city, a tech-obsessed novelist confronts the invasion of mesmerizing machines

Gary Shteyngart

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Discussion

Reader responses to our May issue

The Editors

Global Ambition

A towering tribute to the future past—and one man’s ego

Launched Into Memory

Strangely evocative traces of America’s heroic extraterrestrial journeys

The First Shock Jock

Newly discovered tapes resurrect the angry ghost of Joe Pyne, the original outrageous talk show host

Chariot of Fire

A jet-powered car tore up the track and dazzled fans at the Indianapolis 500—and then vanished

The Surprising Power of 400-Year-Old Paintings

The detective novelist offers his picks for movies, tv shows and Twitter accounts to follow

Lucky Break

A young girl’s mishap led to the popular remedy bacitracin

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