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Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal’s “death feint.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero is widely regarded as one of the most gifted orators in human history. His writings can teach us a lot about the lost art of public speaking.
Philosophy is often seen as little more than armchair speculation. This is a shame, as philosophy often has helped science reach new heights.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
The key problem with the dark matter hypothesis is that nobody knows what form dark matter might take.
In fact, 10,000 steps a day is just an arbitrary number from an old marketing campaign.
82% of professionals say they’d take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese recruited native New Guineans to their campaign.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The quantum world — and its inherent uncertainty — defies our ability to describe it in words.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
No planet enters retrograde more frequently than Mercury, which does so 3-4 times each year. Here’s the scientific explanation for why.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Apart from divine authority, is there an ethical basis for right and wrong?
Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here’s how.
A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.