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Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don’t live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here’s how.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don’t work together.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.
The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
Jokes so cheesy even French philosophers will love them.
The very word “quantum” makes people’s imaginations run wild. But chances are you’ve fallen for at least one of these myths.
AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?
We take for granted that time is real. But what if it’s only an illusion, and a relative illusion at that? Does time even exist?
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
Does the voice in your head castigate the voice coming out of a recording device?
If the metaverse is money, then companies will certainly want to play, too.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
Claims of a “loneliness epidemic” aren’t based on robust data. Loneliness might be a problem, but it’s not worse than it was in the past.
In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.