The winners of the remote work boom? Utah, Arizona, and Maine. Here’s what the US’ post-pandemic migration looks like.

The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

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

Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.

As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making “boulders” out of “pebbles.”

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed.

Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.

For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.

Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they’re interchangeable. They’re not.

In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.

We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.

So far, Earth is the only planet that we’re certain possesses active life processes. Here’s what we shouldn’t assume about life elsewhere.

Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.

Famed activist Bayard Rustin constantly faced the dilemma of coordinating collective pursuits among diverse groups of people.

If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.

The Universe isn’t just expansion, but the expansion itself is accelerating. So why can’t we feel it in any measurable way?

Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.

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

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.

“What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter.”

Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. “First contact” still remains elusive.

Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.

How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

DUNE is designed to detect the Universe’s most antisocial particle: the neutrino.

Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.