'What are we doing here?' The polymaths who searched for the meaning of life

'What are we doing here?' The polymaths who searched for the meaning of life

• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Chemist Dorothy Hodgkin mapped the structures of molecules using X-ray crystallography. • Credit: Mondadori/Getty TraversalMaria

Science · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 338 words