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Giant particle accelerators aren’t a waste of money. They are essential for understanding the Universe.
2023 will see an “arms race” in mixed reality hardware and software. This truly will revolutionize our society.
Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science … and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Night Guy vs. Morning Guy” routine.
How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
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Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.
Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
30 years ago Jim VandeHei — co-founder and CEO of Axios — got leadership feedback all wrong. Now, he has the ideal blueprint so you can get it right.
The first elements in the Universe formed just minutes after the Big Bang, but it took hundreds of thousands of years before atoms formed.
David Novak — the cofounder, and former CEO and chairman, of Yum! Brands — celebrates the benefits of active, lifelong learning.
On-demand learning has become the cornerstone of a modern L&D strategy. Here’s why.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.
The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?
Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
Why the best entrepreneurs should be more Obi-Wan Kenobi than Luke Skywalker.
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.