‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts
Early in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science fiction blockbuster “Project Hail Mary,” center faculty instructor Ryland Grace, performed by Ryan Gosling, is tasked by a global coalition to uncover the biology of a unusual microbe often known as an “astrophage” that has been absorbing power from an ever-dimming Sun. Grace is a molecular biologist…