Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
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The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
Research from NASA reveals Mars’ spectacular volcanic past.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
Was this a moment when humans interbred with Neanderthals?
A revolution of the mind must occur in order for humanity to succeed on a finite planet.
When we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for.
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.
Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.
“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Personality is not set in stone. If you don’t like some aspect of it, you can work to change it — “fake it till you make it.”
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.
Rocks from two hundred million years ago show us how everything died and how nothing is new.
The father of all giant sea bugs was recently discovered off the coast of Java.
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
Civilization is facing an existential threat from climate change. Will we humans make it? Does anyone in the universe make it?
Philosophers and scientists spent millennia arguing about the nature of light. It turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined.