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The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.

“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”

James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”

Over a third are worried that vaccines can cause “canine autism.”

Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank explains how he successfully embraced and deployed AI.

The best of all investor attributes is easily attained — and unbeatable in combination with other advantages.

Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.

A long view of biological survival might point us to new possibilities for finding life elsewhere in the Universe.

South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.

Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.

Named “Supernova H0pe,” it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.

Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on in our history, things were much smaller.

From ibuprofen to fentanyl, it’s about meeting the pain where it’s at.

Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.

Can targeted interventions save Americans?

With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.

Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.

In 2023, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere. That disappointment might have been premature.

Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.

For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform “parasites” and persuade people to support the communist cause.

“We didn’t build anything face-ish into our network [but] managed to segregate themselves without being given a face-specific nudge.”

IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.

It’s a radical but plausible idea.

To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.

Teller and Sagan debated fiercely over nuclear proliferation. But was the conflict as personal as it was intellectual for Teller?