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Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.

Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?

Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?

Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.

This list of leadership training topics is designed to help businesses navigate the times and prepare for the future. 

Executive coaching is a forward-thinking investment in leadership that can empower high-potential individuals to achieve greater success.

Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.

More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history’s most interesting experiments in commodity money.

Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”

Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.

Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.

An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.

Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.

“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.” 

The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.

This is a perversion of justice.

As interest rates rise, the “dead pledge” may live up to its name.

This is your brain on work.

Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.

Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.

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?

We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.

What do the dark recesses of the early Universe and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have in common? More than you could have ever hoped for.

We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don’t agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.

NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.

Success can be measured in different ways. When it hinges entirely on our careers, we fall victim to a devastating addiction.

Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.

The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?