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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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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 […]
How does gratitude work its mental magic?
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 […]
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 […]
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
Since the advent of communication, humans have used stories to create meaningful lives.
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 […]
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 […]
And how cutting just $1 billion per year in funding from NASA’s budget would be a catastrophe for science. When you think of the great cosmic beyond and what we know […]
The two planets most suited for habitability had very different fates. At last, scientists know why. Imagine the early days of our Solar System, going back billions of years. The Sun […]
Study shows minerals sequester carbon for thousands of years, which may explain oxygen’s abundance in the atmosphere.
How do you know you are real? A classic paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom argues you are likely a simulation.
The darkness of the night sky was a mystery for generations of humans. Here’s the reason why. From our perspective here in the Solar System, it makes absolute intuitive sense why […]
We all have obstacles to overcome in pursuit of our goals. For Santa Claus, it’s clear that science is the key. Of all the challenges we face in our work, perhaps […]
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
Particle physics is everywhere, even in the palm of your hand. When you hold out your palm and point it towards the sky, what is it that’s interacting with your hand? […]
Technology’s rapid advances may slow down, limiting our possibilities.
When the Universe gives us clues, we ignore them at our own peril. When you approach the world scientifically, you seek to gain knowledge about how it works by asking it […]