Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
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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.
In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
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 […]
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.
Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
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.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.
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.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?