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NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.

The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.

Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.

Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.

“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair

The creator of the index called it a public utility for accessing the “vast ocean” of human knowledge.

Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.

From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.

The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.

People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?

Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?

Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.

Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.

Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.

Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.

Soft skills training can help develop transformation-ready employees and equip entire organizations to adapt to an unpredictable future.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.

Far from being inappropriate, many of the most controversial acceptance speeches highlighted important issues in the film industry. 

Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?

I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”

Here’s why you may want to opt-out of Amazon’s new shared network.

Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet’s trove of unseemly content.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

The revolution is already happening.

Bitcoin’s creator owns five percent of the entire Bitcoin supply, meaning that he has a larger percent of Bitcoin than the U.S. has of gold.

Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.

The most mental game in existence no longer requires fingers.