For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
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Fulfillment at work isn’t about finding your passion; it’s about cultivating the relationships that create a sense of belonging.
Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here’s the sober truth.
When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn’t happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.
Has the “age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
“The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel.”
At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
If love is an addiction, your first love is the first dose.
In 1974, Hawking showed that black holes aren’t stable, but emit radiation and decay. Nearly 50 years later, it isn’t just for black holes.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.
There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.
This is your brain on work.
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
Smart glasses have flopped before. AI could finally make them mainstream.
Inflation, dark matter, and string theory are all proposed extensions to the prior consensus picture. But what does the evidence say?
Slack’s recent radical upskilling booster week highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to L&D: here are some of the most groundbreaking.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese recruited native New Guineans to their campaign.
New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
Beautiful people really know how to catch a break.