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When cosmic inflation came to an end, the hot Big Bang ensued as a result. If our cosmic vacuum state decays, could it all happen again?

Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.

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

Discover how the threads of myth, legend, and artistry have been woven together by storytellers to craft history.

Take it from teamwork gurus behind Apple and Star Wars — a new kind of psychological incubator will allow your creativity to flourish.

Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.

Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.

Almost everyone asserts that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything, followed by inflation. Has everyone gotten the order wrong?

Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.

From ancient Greek cosmology to today’s mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, explore the relentless quest to understand the Universe’s invisible forces.

Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.

Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

The recent discovery of a large cave on the Moon highlights the importance of caves not just for future space explorers but astrobiology as well.

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

Rooted in Vedic philosophy, “anupalabdhi” — or “non-apprehension” — can help you exploit gaps in the market.

The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.

The CMB gives us critical information about our cosmic past. But it doesn’t give us everything, and galaxy mapping can fill in a key gap.

Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.

The history of catastrophe shows that true resilience comes not from restoration, but from reinvention.

The Multiverse isn’t just a staple of science fiction; there’s real-life science behind it, too. Here are 10 facts to expand your mind.

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

Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.

The nation-state had a good run, but its usefulness may have come to an end.

When we divide matter into its fundamental, indivisible components, are those particles truly point-like, or is there a finite minimum size?

There are some 26 fundamental constants in nature, and their values enable our Universe to exist as it does. But where do they come from?

From Æthelred the Unready to Halfdan the Bad Entertainer, these strange epithets colored the legacy of four rather unlucky historical figures.