Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
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Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]
New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
Awareness of one’s own heartbeat has some positive effects.
Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.
The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
‘Reductio ad absurdum’ won’t help you in an absurd Universe. Throughout history, there have been two main ways humanity has attempted to gain knowledge about the world: top-down, where we […]
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Degoo’s secure backups are available at a great price.
Can we ever make energy efficient AI?
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?
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Intrapreneurs tap into the spirit of entrepreneurialism to innovate and find personal meaning at work, but organizations need to celebrate their efforts more.
American universities used to be small centers of rote learning, but three big ideas turned them into intellectual powerhouses.
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
A new study shows that beauty standards affect whether or not accusers are believed.
Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
A new study finds it may take decades or even a whole lifetime to appear.
The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
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If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.