“If we’re related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives.”

If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old today, but different ages the farther we look back, what does it mean for a star to be the first?

John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.

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“When you think about this interconnection of all these tiny causes and effects which add up to the way the world unfolds, it becomes impossible to imagine that we have complete control.”

The COSMOS-Web has just finalized their release of their full field: larger and deeper than any other JWST program. Here’s what’s inside.

The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.

When theory and experiment disagree, it could mean new physics. This time, they solved the muon g-2 puzzle, and saved the Standard Model.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.

In “Raising AI,” De Kai argues that today’s AIs are already more like us than we think they are.

A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.

For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here’s why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.

“The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back.”

The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.

As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.

In our Universe, dark matter outmasses normal matter by a 5-to-1 ratio, shaping the Universe as we know it. What if it simply weren’t there?

An atheist’s case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.

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It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.

Rutger Bregman’s “Moral Ambition” wants us to aim our careers not at money but solving the world’s biggest problems.

The long-elusive neutrino was shown to have a bizarre property no one expected: mass. New, tightest-ever limits have profound implications.

A comparison of wealth gaps in ancient empires reveals stark differences and lasting consequences.

What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.

The Gospels aren’t historical biographies but genre-defining works that blend myth, theology, and a promise of hope.

Creative thinkers are unafraid of the ambiguous spaces where innovation often resides — and this trait is vital when navigating change.

Many were hoping that JWST would find the first stars of all. Despite many hopeful claims, it hasn’t, and probably can’t. Here’s how we can.

What’s the point in fighting a made up monster?

Here in our Universe, time passes at a fixed rate for all observers: one second-per-second. Before the Big Bang, things were very different.

The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.

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