Conventional wisdom believes “screen time” disrupts mental development, but research hints at a more complicated relationship between our minds and digital technology.
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New research based on observational data from the Spitzer telescope provides clues as to how the universe first emerged from its dark age.
Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
If you were to compress the entire history of the Universe into one calendar year, everything we love happens on December 31st. Our Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years […]
Without a country to belong to, many of these people lack some of the most fundamental rights.
That’s five more unicorns than the previous three years combined.
The Zen of choreographer Merce Cunningham comes alive in a new documentary about his life.
Sure, Epicureans focused on seeking pleasure – but they also did so much more.
With tens of thousands of satellites requiring AI-control to avoid collisions, a single solar flare could everything. Over the next few years, the night sky and the volume of space […]
Every organization needs the capacity to generate disruptive ideas. No one can afford to stand still and pretend that past habits will guarantee future success. If your organization isn’t ready […]
A fully programmable quantum computer that can outperform any classical computer is right at the edge of today’s technology. Earlier this month, a new story leaked out: Google, one of […]
“Brasilia, the biggest paper town ever.”
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it’s not too late to change.
From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.
What makes a life worth living as you grow older?
On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.
You might think that we live in a three dimensional Universe based on space alone. But you cannot leave time out of it. If you were asked to describe how you […]
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
It’s not the act of buying but how you spend money that improves happiness and life satisfaction.
Its emergence will challenge what it means to be human.
The 40th edition of the Starts With A Bang Podcast features Astronomer John O’Meara, the first pristine matter ever seen, and a 15-meter space telescope proposal! One of the great […]
Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth.
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There are real problems that our society faces, and only through expert-level knowledge can we solve them. All across the country, you can see how the seeds of it develop from […]
She’s not a scientist, an expert, or even an adult. But she’s got one good lesson to teach us all. Like most people on Earth, Greta Thunberg is not a climate […]
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we found them. The idea of the Big Bang has captivated the […]
We’ve put so much together about the Universe. Could it all come tumbling down? We’re always on the lookout for the next big thing, and even our best guesswork is often […]
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
Since the advent of communication, humans have used stories to create meaningful lives.
How does gratitude work its mental magic?
Even though it was the crowning achievement of Einstein’s career, he was only a small part of the full story. If you were a physicist in the early 20th century, there […]