The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
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The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
The American author said he attempted to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism, but received “very little gratitude for this.”
Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece’s brightest minds.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.
To thrive in a rapidly changing future, we will need adaptable and diverse skill sets. Here’s where to look.
The Universe has asymmetries, but that’s a good thing. Imperfections are essential for the existence of stars and even life itself.
Carl Jung was one such person.
Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.
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.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they’re an easy target and are not completely controllable.
The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.
Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.
New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.
