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If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.

Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.

The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.

Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.

Like ultra-hardy plants that thrive in harsh conditions, businesses that see crises as opportunities are likely to win in the long run.

Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.

For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.

First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.

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

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.

The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

All scientific theories are limited in scope, power, and application, being mere approximations of reality. That’s why consensus is vital.

Japanese thought can’t be easily characterized by just a few books — but this essential guide is a great place to start.

Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.

Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.

From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate?

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?

Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It’s smarter than you would think.

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

Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.

All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?

Cody Delistraty explores if laughter can help alleviate the physical symptoms of grief.

Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?

The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that’s just not true.

According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.

Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”