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“You need to run towards the pain and darkness and not away from it. I think the best leaders always run towards the darkness. They always run towards a problem.”

From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed’s true nature.

The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

The last naked-eye Milky Way supernova happened way back in 1604. With today’s detectors, the next one could solve the dark matter mystery.

History’s most effective leaders often worked quietly behind the scenes. Find out the traits to watch for when identifying unseen leadership in your team.

This episode explores how to leverage generational diversity as a strength in the workplace. Learn strategies for fostering collaboration across age groups, embracing mutual mentorship, and blending curiosity with wisdom to create more dynamic teams and stronger leadership.

In astronomy, a star’s initial mass determines its ultimate outcome in life. Unless, that is, a stellar companion alters the deal.

Absence makes the heart (and public opinion) grow fonder.

The largest particle accelerator and collider ever built is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Why not go much, much bigger?

On a cosmic scale, our existence seems insignificant and inconsequential. But from another perspective, humans are completely remarkable.

Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?

Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?

Taco Thursdays and free yoga have their limits — for lasting workplace happiness leaders need to think about purpose.

Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.

Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.

The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?

Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.

Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.

Ideas that seem wildly controversial today may move humanity towards progress. Philosopher Peter Singer asks —how do we keep them from being stifled?

Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.

Named “Supernova H0pe,” it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.

The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?

How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released, strengthens this Hubble tension even further.

Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.

Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster.

The fear of deep bodies of water may be evolutionarily ingrained.

A part of human nature needs to be challenged and feel strong. Today, we fulfill that need with “surrogate activities.”

Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.

Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.

Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.