We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
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A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
No matter how accurately you place two Plinko chips, you cannot count on the same outcome twice. Of all the pricing games on the iconic television show The Price Is Right, […]
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Compassionate leadership is what differentiates good from great leaders during crisis.
Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.
The answer to this question depends on how you define “freedom.”
Just don’t expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.
You may only have a few minutes to prepare.
After the German election, will the nation continue to “muddle through” successfully enough to lead Europe?
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.
Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.
Dreams are weird. According to a new theory, that’s what makes them useful.
Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
Opportunistic agility is running rampant among hackers and scammers.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” refers to a religious desert people who are desperate for a savior to overthrow an evil empire. Sound familiar?
Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”