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The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.

The Santa Fe Institute is a cradle of modern research. Our host Kmele meets some of the brilliant minds who work there.

Ironically, the company did so using technology perfected by the oil industry.

Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.

The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST's eyes, astronomers found so much more.

Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.

AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.

Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.

600 million years ago, the sea sponge had a dream.

Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn's moons might tell a different story.

Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.

People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.

The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?

The best answer we have is, "Life is matter with intentionality."

A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.

The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.

There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.

Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can't? No. But if they can calculate faster, that's quantum supremacy.

The cosmic microwave background offers clues.

You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.

As recently as 1990, we didn't know of any planets beyond our Solar System. Today, with 5000+, we're deep into the weeds of how they form.

This network physicist is mapping the world's most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.

Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.

How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.

The Mayan calendar is revered for its impeccable accuracy. Now, a recent excavation in Guatemala reveals how the system developed over time.

Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.

Water is vital for life. Luckily for spacefaring humans, the solar system is full of it.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.