Search Results

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.

Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 

These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.

A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.

The laws of physics aren’t changing. But the Earth’s conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?

Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.

Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.

Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.

Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?

“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”

There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?