A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
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A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?
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.
Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.
Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.
According to Zena Hitz, the idea of the intellectual has become distorted. She believes “the real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us.”
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Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
The challenges of setting out in a new direction can be overwhelming — but we can learn to navigate the inflection moments.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
From cosmetic procedures to heart operations, the introduction of AI will create an ethical minefield.
Light can be turned into heat, which can then be turned into motion, and the effect of that motion can be turned into a big squeeze.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose.
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13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth's last wild continent.
Carl Jung was one such person.
Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.
I think, therefore I am (rich).
Art isn't a side note in human history; it's the main text.