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To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.

Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.

Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?

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

Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.

Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.

Most fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.

Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?

Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?

The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.

Talking to yourself seems to yield real benefits, from boosts in cognitive performance to improved emotional regulation.

From active listening to giving feedback, these five capabilities are integral to interpersonal skills training.

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

When you can’t enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.

2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.

An incredible composite image of Pandora’s Cluster, Abell 2744, simultaneously showcases both our impressive knowledge and vast ignorance.

One single plot of data embodies the most profound thing we know about the stars.

Late-night shows, developed during the “golden age” of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.

Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?

The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?

End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.

The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.