Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.
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In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.
Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.
Having a “buff” skeleton prevents infirmity in old age.
Our desire for recognition at work can lead to perilous ends.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.
Despite the claims of speed reading apps, it turns out that you actually have to read the book if you want to learn from it.
“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.
Arendt thought 20th-century philosophy had become too passive and abstract. She called for “active thinking” that prepares us to live in the real world.
We also don’t know how Tylenol works. But it does work.
For centuries, even after we knew the Sun was a star like any other, we still didn’t know what it was made of. Cecilia Payne changed that.
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
Scientists turn to nature to improve a ubiquitous building material.
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
The road to “uncaged leadership” means reimagining your professional identity and value. Here’s how.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.