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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The Zen of choreographer Merce Cunningham comes alive in a new documentary about his life.
Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
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 […]
The neuralnanorobotics are coming.
Without a country to belong to, many of these people lack some of the most fundamental rights.
New research based on observational data from the Spitzer telescope provides clues as to how the universe first emerged from its dark age.
That’s five more unicorns than the previous three years combined.
Sure, Epicureans focused on seeking pleasure – but they also did so much more.
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.”
From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it’s not too late to change.
What makes a life worth living as you grow older?
It’s not the act of buying but how you spend money that improves happiness and life satisfaction.
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 […]
On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.
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 […]
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
Its emergence will challenge what it means to be human.
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 […]
Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth.
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How does gratitude work its mental magic?
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The highest-energy particles on Earth reach enormous energies, but it’s nothing compared to what the Universe can achieve. Deep underground in Europe, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator lives in a […]
Since the advent of communication, humans have used stories to create meaningful lives.
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 […]