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Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.

There may be more energy in methane hydrates than in all the world’s oil, coal, and gas combined. It could be the perfect “bridge fuel” to a clean energy future.

The anxieties underpinning the Great Resignation were simmering for a long time. Here’s a solution.

One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.

The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.

Restaurateur Will Guidara explains why it’s not just what you do, but how you make people feel that leads to successful ventures.

The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.

Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.

If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.

Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.

The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.

The existential philosopher argued that an authentic and meaningful life is measured by choice.

About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.

“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche’s titular character asks in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”

Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.

This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.

As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.

In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.

Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.

In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.

Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.

Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.

The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.

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

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are locked in an eternal battle over the nature of gravity. Whose side are you on?

Irene is on a bus with her young kids when two men come on, cussing like sailors. Should Irene step in and say something?

The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.

The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?