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All scientific theories are limited in scope, power, and application, being mere approximations of reality. That’s why consensus is vital.

Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.

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

There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.

We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.

Should we be searching for life on other planets, or technology?

Every astrobiologist wants to find an alien. But the public should be skeptical when the “aliens” look like tiny humans.

The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.

Scientists might be looking for Martian life in the wrong place.

In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren’t close to the same.

We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don’t agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.

We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.

The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.

Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don’t consciously realize it.

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

Hinduism emphasizes the journey, whichever path that takes. And it holds us responsible for our own self-improvement.

Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?

Modern cosmology conjectures different possible fates for the Universe and thus for the end of time. Details depend on which model is right.

Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.

Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.

Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.

Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.

SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?

Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.

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

“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?

Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.

More than two years after JWST began science operations, our Universe now looks very different. Here are its biggest science contributions.

Quibi was so focused on foresight they forgot the basics of hindsight.