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

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

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

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 year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.

The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.

90’s kids know him from All That, Kenan & Kel, and Good Burger. This is Kel Mitchell, who sat down with us to share how he persevered through some of the hardest moments of his life.

When caught between the urge for wholesale change and fear of stasis, the best approach is to take it easy.

Explore data on electric car sales and stocks worldwide.

From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.

Scientists still aren’t sure how they perform without those restorative Z’s.

We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.

There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.

From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn’t want to put their name on the cover.

Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.

EBT-101 is not the only candidate for an HIV cure. Stem cell transplants, medications, and other CRISPR therapies are being researched.

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.

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

He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.

From a hot, dense, uniform state in its earliest moments, our entire known Universe arose. These unavoidable steps made it all possible.

Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.

It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here’s the greatest one ever witnessed.

We are still new at this.

Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.

Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed.

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.