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Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.

Not every “expert” has the expertise to back up their argument.

If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?

We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?

Don’t let your reptile brain tell you what to do.

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

A new railway will switch the Baltic region’s train gauge from Soviet to standard European — a megaproject with political, economic, and military dimensions.

It’s possible to remove all forms of matter, radiation, and curvature from space. When you do, dark energy still remains. Is this mandatory?

The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.

People often ask “What should I do?” when faced with an ethical problem. Aristotle urges us to ask “What kind of person should I be?”

Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.

In movies and TV shows, aliens look like pointy-eared humans. Is this realistic? If evolution is predictable, then it very well might be.

The paradox of tribalism is that humans need a sense of belonging to be healthy and happy, but too much tribalism is deadly. We are one tribe.

A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.

“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”

A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.

When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.

The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.

We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.

Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.

Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.

According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.

The multifaceted nature of company culture is what makes it so challenging — this guide will help you make sense of the complexity.

Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?

In the brain’s language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.

Rooted in Vedic philosophy, “anupalabdhi” — or “non-apprehension” — can help you exploit gaps in the market.

“In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy.”

There’s nothing like the end of the world to make you a philosopher.