It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
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Soft skills training can help develop transformation-ready employees and equip entire organizations to adapt to an unpredictable future.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
As with any “big idea” progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
The most common visual depictions of the history of the Universe show the Big Bang as a growing tube with an “ignition” point. Why is that?
To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it’s cemented as the beginning of our Universe.
Today, the deepest depths of intergalactic space aren’t at absolute zero, but at a chill 2.73 K. How does that temperature change over time?
How to figure out the right amount of time for any project.
It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
Do you really need a monstrous upbringing to make monsters?
The largest particle accelerator and collider ever built is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Why not go much, much bigger?
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
Caption:“At this time in Mars’ history, we think CO2 is everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and water percolating through the rocks is full of CO2 too,” Joshua Murray says.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
Executive presence training can help leaders learn how to better support their people, become more self aware, communicate effectively, and more.
A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.
By focusing on the role of human experience, we may uncover new insights on the fundamental structure of reality.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
It’s not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.
Anger and silence are the two worst reactions.
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?