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According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.

As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.

Dark matter’s hallmark is that it gravitates, but shows no sign of interacting under any other force. Does that mean we’ll never detect it?

The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.

It’s 2024, and we still only know of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model: nothing more. But these 8 unanswered questions remain.

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.

In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.

In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.

The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that’s just not true.

His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.

The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.

In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.

The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.

In a far-reaching discovery with astrophysicist Karolina Garcia, we discuss what’s in the Universe and how it grew up.

If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.

How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.

Old coal mines can be converted into “gravity batteries” by retrofitting them with equipment that raises and lowers giant piles of sand.

Although the Big Bang occurred at an instant in time long ago, we still see the light from it. Will the evidence ever disappear completely?

In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.

Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.

Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.

If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there’s a good chance you have too much insulin.

In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.

Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.

There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

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

Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”

If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”

Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?