Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.
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Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
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.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
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Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.
Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government uses Newspeak to control thoughts by controlling language. But thoughts do not require language.
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
Our understanding always will remain incomplete.
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
Science fiction met nuclear fission when Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd pondered the explosive potential of nuclear energy.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?