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Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.

“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”

A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.

Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.

Robert Waldinger, Zen priest and Harvard professor, explains why fulfillment isn’t about reaching an idealized state. It’s found in everyday acts of kindness and compassion.

Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.

Yushiro Kato — the 32-year-old co-founder and CEO of manufacturing platform CADDi — offers his most valuable leadership learnings.

The difference between predictions and observations of the magnetic properties of muons suggests a mystery for the Standard Model.

The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.

The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it a reasonable way to make sense of things?

Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.

The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

This is especially true for three key groups.

Why “audio gaps” in video meetings wear us out — and why we need the meaningful relationships forged in communal workspaces.

We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don’t agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.

Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?

The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?

The largest particle accelerator and collider ever built is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Why not go much, much bigger?

Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science’s biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?

Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.

There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.

Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.

A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.

We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.

One of the most promising dark matter candidates is light particles, like axions. With JWST, we can rule out many of those options already.

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.

A proton is the only stable example of a particle composed of three quarks. But inside the proton, gluons, not quarks, dominate.