Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact.
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Be more like Goldilocks.
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.
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth’s specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
There’s really only one mistake you can make: continue doing the same thing you already know is hurting you and expect a different result.
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Clear communication is good for business and life — but compelling communication can take you to another level.
Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
“The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel.”
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.
Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.
You can learn a lot about life through literature’s most unrespectable and heinous characters.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
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When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his ‘biggest blunder’ occur?
Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.
Will you die when your body dies?
What do Remus Lupin, Katniss Evergreen, William Wordsworth, and Usain Bolt all have in common?
The anxieties underpinning the Great Resignation were simmering for a long time. Here’s a solution.
The sooner you can admit what’s swimming beneath the surface, the sooner you can improve your life.
Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
“I was incarcerated well before I was in prison and I was free before the gates of prison opened up and let me out.”
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