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The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.

The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?

“Part of what’s happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.

The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.

Cognitive systems famously posited by psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) may hold the key to a more productive and focused work environment.

There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.

Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.

Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.

According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.

The technology could yield “made-to-order resistance genes” to protect crops against pathogens and pests.

Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.

Some microbes can withstand Earth’s most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.

For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.

In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.

Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It’s not pretty for the “second” star.

Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their parent stars, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky ones.

Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.

How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

The 5th brightest star in our night sky is young, blue, and apparently devoid of massive planets. New JWST observations deepen the mystery.

Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

The future belongs to complexity.

The mind-blowing theory that everything is evolving—from minerals to music—explained in 3 minutes by a Carnegie scientist.

Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.

Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.