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“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)

How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.

At all distances, the Universe expands along our line-of-sight. But we can’t measure side-to-side motions; could it be rotating as well?

Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.

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

There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]

Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.

Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.

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

Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.

There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.

Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?

The Universe certainly formed stars, at one point, for the very first time. But we haven’t found them yet. Here’s what everyone should know.

Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.

Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.

As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.

Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.

You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.

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

There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.

If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]

The majority of countries are democracies. But how many people enjoy democratic rights?

Ages 30 to 45 are now “the rush hour of life.”

The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here’s what the new LHC can do.

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.

Companies can identify you from your music preferences, as well as influence and profit from your behavior.