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The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.

All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.

Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?

Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.

Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.

Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.

Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.

The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.

A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.

In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.

Matt Strassler’s journey into fundamental physics culminates in a brilliant explanation of the Higgs field. Enjoy this exclusive interview.

Science fiction met nuclear fission when Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd pondered the explosive potential of nuclear energy.

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.

Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.

Elon Musk’s successful bid to take over Twitter has fragmented the internet along predictably partisan lines. But only time will tell whether this is a good or bad thing.

What if your best friend was an informant?

A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.

Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.

Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.

One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It’s a key focus of the “progress studies” discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.

Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?

With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.

Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.

Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.

The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.

Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.

Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.