A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.
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If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they're not getting any happier.
The rarest stars in the Universe are the ones we need the most to make humanity possible. Like everything in the Universe, stars are born, they live a little while, […]
By supplementing the "principle of marginal gains” with these practical steps, you’ll be well equipped for the journey towards excellence.
Company culture is always evolving — sometimes for the worse.
Our galaxy not only isn’t stationary, but different parts are accelerating at different rates. When we think about the Universe as a whole, the accelerations that objects experience from our […]
We can do so much more, so much faster, with the same data. When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data […]
How will we actually feel when the things we do with care are suddenly dealt with in seconds by AI? Here’s a preliminary plan.
The densest objects that haven’t collapsed to black holes can tell us information about the Universe unlike anything else. Swarming through our own galaxy, we’ve detected quite a few bizarre objects: […]
Dark matter was thought to be cold and collisionless. But maybe that’s not the full story. If you look out at the Universe and measure all the matter out there, including […]
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Being a small piece of a large experiment is vital to the enterprise of science. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a small (but vital) part of […]
The smallest and faintest stars of all, even the failed stars that didn’t make it, are hiding some fascinating secrets. You might have thought that if we were going to […]
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there's a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Even the ones hunting for aliens aren’t excited. Here’s the reason why. In this world, there are very few issues more polarizing than the notion of aliens. For as long as […]
Only 17 years after its discovery have we learned we’re safe from asteroid Apophis. Ever since its 2004 discovery, asteroid 99942 Apophis has threatened planet Earth. Asteroid Apophis has been measured […]
What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?
"Deepfakes" and "cheap fakes" are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.
We’ve found our first ones! The question is: how did they survive? Over the past 2 years, an exciting development has finally arisen: scientists have measured a large number of small, […]
The challenges of setting out in a new direction can be overwhelming — but we can learn to navigate the inflection moments.
This scientist made an algorithm to predict which artists succeed — all without even looking at their art.
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Using machine-learning technology, the genealogy company My Heritage enables users to animate static images of their relatives.
Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.