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Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What’s puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
Who should be compensated?
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.
Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe’s history. But the evidence is strongly against them.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.
Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Probably not. Even though we’re still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
Earth wasn’t created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Expressing gratitude encourages others to continue being generous, promoting a cycle of goodness.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Successful romantic relationships require desire, but that desire doesn’t have to be sexual.