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The Future
Inside the movement that’s rewriting how we do science
With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
Smrithi Sunil
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Business
Exceptional storytelling and the myth of superhuman AI
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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The Long Game
What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity
What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.
Eric Markowitz
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13.8
Complexity science could transform 21st-century research. Here’s how.
The future belongs to complexity.
Adam Frank
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Hard Science
The best clues to life on Mars could be in these Idaho fossils
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.
Robert Patalano
Silhouette of a person standing on a field at night, gazing at a clear sky filled with stars and glowing celestial objects, evoking the wonder described by Jim Al-Khalili.
The Well
Jim Al-Khalili: How our ancient sense of wonder drives physics deeper into the unknown
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Sam Jarman
John Templeton Foundation
science
13.8
The boundaries between sciences
Nature is a whole. The sciences should be, too.
Adam Frank
Starts With A Bang
The 3 Most Important Questions Every Prospective Grad Student Must Face
Simply getting into grad school isn’t enough. The answers to these three questions can make all the difference. It’s time. You’ve done all your research into schools, completed your undergraduate […]
Ethan Siegel
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