We can’t go back to the Big Bang, nor ahead to the heat death of the Universe. Nevertheless, here are today’s natural temperature extremes.

The restoration of public confidence is crucial for strong democratic governance around the world.

A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.

Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.

Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.

Somewhere out there in the Universe is the heaviest neutron star, and elsewhere lies the lightest black hole. Where’s the line between them?

Quelle horreur! Paris isn’t just a 15-minute city; it’s a five-minute city.

Frugality can also benefit the environment.

Depression might be similar to dreaming.

Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?

“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”

“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences,” film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about “Mulholland Drive.”

The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

Cosmic origins remain a mystery.

Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.

The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”

The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.

Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.

Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.

Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.

Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.

Why marriage is thriving — and dying — in different American classes.

Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?

Could it be culture?

For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.

The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.

This is your brain on work.

The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.

“Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body.”