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It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.

To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it’s cemented as the beginning of our Universe.

AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.

Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.

If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?

Semyon Dukach — founding partner of VC firm One Way Ventures — adds balance to the founder mode debate.

The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.

Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!

The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.

If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? The far future stability of the Universe depends on it.

The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.

Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they’re doing.

“If we could target those circuits very precisely, then there’s great potential to block the inflammation response for many diseases.”

Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life’s emotions — even the negative ones.

Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?

A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.

Plenty of parents feel guilty about wanting to skip playtime, but there’s no need.

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

With new W-boson, top quark, and Higgs boson measurements, the LHC contradicts earlier Fermilab results. The Standard Model still holds.

Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.

Without wormholes, warp drive, or some type of new matter, energy, or physics, everyone is limited by the speed of light. Or are they?

The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.

Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.

“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”

Leading a scientific revolution is easy: you just have to succeed where the current theory fails while equaling its successes. Good luck!

If it weren’t for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn’t have formed neutral atoms “only” ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.

A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.

The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.

It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.