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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.

The observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve it?

“CIA classifies their secrets according to different terminology. There’s confidential secrets, there are secret level secrets, and then there are top secret secrets. And the way that they define each of these different levels actually has to do with the impact that would occur if the secret became public knowledge.”

Here in 2025, many of us claim to come to our own conclusions by doing our own research. Here’s why we’re mostly deluding ourselves.

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data. What have we really learned from it all?

It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.

From flow to emotional intelligence, these insightful books feature actionable advice you can try out today.

At extremely close distances to their stars, even rocky planets can be completely disintegrated. We’ve just caught our first one in action.

Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.

You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Comparing Elon Musk’s Mars rocket to NASA’s new ride.

Finding meaning isn’t just personally fulfilling — it’s critical to our brain’s development, explains USC neuroscientist.

In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.

The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.

Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.

It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.

It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.

If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.

Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.

Electromagnetism, both nuclear forces, and even the Higgs force are mediated by known bosons. What about gravity? Does it require gravitons?

From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.

The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.

“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”

AI has become a black box in more ways than one.

Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?