An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
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Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas.
It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.
If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?
The answer may lie in the power to see far, far beyond yourself.
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic “The Personal MBA” — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
How can “you” move on when the old “you” is gone?
Nobody knows where the word “penguin” comes from.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
“We can build AI scientists that are better than we are… these systems can be superhuman,” says the FutureHouse co-founder.
Mark Weinstein outlines a new path for social media that protects, respects, and empowers the regular users.
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn’t if it’s going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.