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Meditating will make you more open to a plant-based diet, says legendary music producer Russell Simmons, who calls eating meat “the biggest karmic disaster in the world.”

Considered a major inspiration for the founding of the international Scouting movement, Major Frederick Russell Burnham was an adventurer who wrote on the power of leadership.

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

For centuries, even after we knew the Sun was a star like any other, we still didn’t know what it was made of. Cecilia Payne changed that.

These books helped build the empirical case that life’s origins differ from those described in myths and legends.

Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.

Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein drew inspiration from psychologists as well as their own children, becoming more understanding parents in the process.

Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.

Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.

Will you die when your body dies?

Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.

All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.

From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?

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

Most globular clusters appear to form their stars all at once, but there are exceptions. JWST just observed how “second formations” happen.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.

Media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists insist that they’re “just asking questions.” No, they aren’t.

A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing’s test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.

Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.

Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.

After 100 million nights of people asking, “What are those twinkly lights?” it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.

If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.

Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.

Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]

New research suggests you can’t fake your emotional state to improve your work life — you have to feel it.

Puerto Rico’s iconic telescope facilitated important scientific discoveries while inspiring young scientists and the public imagination.

The pendulum didn’t tick right when they brought it here: the start of a fascinating story. For nearly three full centuries, the most accurate way that humanity kept track of […]