Cancer Isn’t a Disease; It’s Part of You

Cancer cells are your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong. Therefore, we don’t need to cure cancer, just control it.

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February 4, 2011

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Cancer cells are your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong. Therefore, we don’t need to cure cancer, just control it.

Cosmologist & Astrobiologist, Arizona State University

Monthly Issue April 2026

In this monthly issue, we examine how our understanding of energy — and how we source and use it — is evolving.

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Many facts are well-known to professionals, but are unappreciated or even rejected outright by the public. "How stars work" takes the cake.

by Ethan Siegel

For decades, theorists have been cooking up "theories of everything" to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?

by Ethan Siegel

A Columbia researcher argues that everything from stress to aging comes down to how energy moves through your body.

by Jasna Hodžić

A growing movement is trying to turn energy directly into food — reviving an old dream of escaping the violence and inefficiency of eating.

by Thomas Moynihan

Learn from the world's biggest thinkers.