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“Upon emergence, these patients are sincerely unsure what was reality and what was a ‘dream.'”

Finally, an AI that can drive a digital car as a goat.

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

Taco Thursdays and free yoga have their limits — for lasting workplace happiness leaders need to think about purpose.

AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.

The successful tactics of big-name leaders — including Bob Iger, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella — reveal key approaches to innovation.

Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it’s now or never.

You’ve probably noticed that most retailers use prices ending in 99. That’s intentional.

Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.

We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.

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

For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?

“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”

New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line. 

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.

Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?

It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.

By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.

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

The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.

An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.

The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.

A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.

It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.

What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.

If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?

Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.