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There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.

For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.

Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

Instead of a mental illness, some research suggests that psychopathy — in moderation — is a reasonable life strategy.

A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.

The highest earning Myers-Briggs personality type? ENTJ.

Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.

The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.

Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]

Is there victory in defeat?

Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?

Augustine’s theology came to define Christianity, but there was a rival theology.

Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

The mad dog’s bite caused a hideous metamorphosis, which transformed its human victim into a nefarious monster.

Diversity training is easy to get wrong. Here’s how to build an effective program. 

What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?

Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.

As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)

The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”

Utopia is like a John Lennon song but with golden toilets.

Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.

You don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.

Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.

The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.

Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]

Predicting how emerging technologies will impact industry is more difficult than it seems—and it seems plenty difficult.  The reason is that we envision the future based on the present. We […]