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Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers three strategies for relaxing your cognitive filters to give your brilliant ideas time to shine in the spotlight of the conscious mind.
Sludge may be inevitable, but there are better ways to manage such frictions in our daily lives.
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The Big Bang is our accepted origin of the Universe. But is there another possibility? Since the mid-1960s and the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Big Bang has […]
She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.
Your brain is bursting with ideas, and most of them are … weird. You only have to recall the wonderfully bonkers notions of your childhood. Like the time you wanted […]
Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.
It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
Yet, if they only obey the rules that we know, there’s no way to explain why. One of the greatest puzzles in all of physics is that the laws of nature — as […]
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.
Looking probably isn’t something you need to practice. People believe they can apprehend a painting at a glance. They read coworkers’ messages and assume they understand a situation. Or they […]
Once only dark energy remains, empty space still won’t be completely empty. Imagine, if you dare, the very end of the Universe. The stars — past, present, and future — have all burned out. […]
Science is an ongoing flirtation with the unknown.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]