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In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.

Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.

The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.

The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.

The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.

“I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies.”

Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Human civilization has always survived periods of change. Will our rapidly evolving technological era be an exception to the rule?

Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.

“If we didn’t find helping other people pleasurable, we wouldn’t be altruistic.”

In 1980, Willy Brandt drew a line across the map that still influences how we think about the world.

We have very specific predictions for how particles ought to decay. When we look at B-mesons all together, something vital doesn’t add up.

One hypothesis says that sleep helps “clean” the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.

The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.

Astronomer Adam Frank asks: With so many extraordinary claims, why can’t anybody produce the proof?

Time is relative, not absolute, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. Your head and feet, therefore, don’t age at the same rate.

In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.

“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”

Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.

A survey of more than 6,000 of the world’s richest, most influential people shows that 9% of them attended Harvard University.

“How is it possible to do work that you’re proud of and not feel like your job is encroaching on all parts of your life?” Cal Newport, Author of ‘Slow Productivity,’ explains.

A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.

Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.

In today’s ever-changing world, leaders must guide teams through uncertainty. This episode covers strategies to build trust, foster transparency, and engage teams through co-creation. Learn how to leverage lifelong learning and use technology to create a more adaptable, inclusive workforce.

Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?

A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.

Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.

From before the Big Bang to the present day, the Universe goes through many eras. Dark energy heralds the final one.