The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.
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In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.
90’s kids know him from All That, Kenan & Kel, and Good Burger. This is Kel Mitchell, who sat down with us to share how he persevered through some of the hardest moments of his life.
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When caught between the urge for wholesale change and fear of stasis, the best approach is to take it easy.
Scientists still aren’t sure how they perform without those restorative Z’s.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
EBT-101 is not the only candidate for an HIV cure. Stem cell transplants, medications, and other CRISPR therapies are being researched.
Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.
From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.
How much can something change and still be the same thing?
Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here’s the greatest one ever witnessed.
The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.
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He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.
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We are still new at this.
It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It’s performing better than anyone anticipated.
In the shadow of the Shard, the mosaics help paint a picture of Roman London.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Futurist Ari Wallach asks, “how do we want to be remembered?”
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Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
From a hot, dense, uniform state in its earliest moments, our entire known Universe arose. These unavoidable steps made it all possible.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Bang bang all over the Universe.
“Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks… by up to 200 to 1.”