Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a “school without a master” than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
June 12, 2023
A quote apocryphally attributed to Henry Ford goes, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Our crossword this week covers recent critical innovations and the debate as to whether they will be beneficial or detrimental to mankind’s survival.
With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, some galaxies are already dead. Their inhabitants might not know it, but we’re certain.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
“In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned.”
From gene expression to protein design, large language models are creating a suite of powerful genomic tools.
You’ll be able to sleep through a war.
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
We don’t know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.
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If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
It’s a useful fiction — but it’s still fiction.
Before Rome was an empire, it was a republic. And before it was a republic, it was a kingdom ruled by seven mythical kings — some better than others.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the “oinker diet.”
Sex, gender, and the debate over identity explained by Berkeley professor Judith Butler.
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Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
In an age of high quit rates, struggling low-wage employees, and tone-deaf leadership, the call for “good jobs” makes great sense.
When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his ‘biggest blunder’ occur?
One of Apple’s key innovations serves as a psychological breakthrough, as its technology eliminates the isolating feel of headset use.
Gamma-ray bursts are so powerful they could vaporize the Earth from 200 light-years away. Recreating them in the lab is not easy.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.