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The "first cause" problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
You don't need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
The negative associations of introversion help to explain why loneliness now carries such social stigma.
The Russian-built FEDOR was launched on a mission to help ISS astronauts.
Dark matter, dark energy, inflation and the Big Bang are real, and the alternatives all fail spectacularly. If you keep up with the latest science news, you’re probably familiar with […]
With huge suites of data, we can extract plenty of signals where we know to look for them. Everything else? That’s where AI comes in. At the dawn of the 20th […]
20 years before Sally Ride, Valentina Tereshkova set the bar. She’s still amazing after more than 50 years. “A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop […]
NASA finds 50,000 year-old bacteria alive inside gigantic crystals in a Mexican mine.
Our increased dependency on antibiotics creates more resistant bacteria. How will we outwit these bad actors?
They may look odd, but it’s all part of Google’s plan to solve a huge issue in machine learning: recognizing objects in images.
What is this thing called love? I took my own stab at understanding the neurobiological circuits underlying love and sex with my own book, DIRTY MINDS: HOW OUR BRAINS INFLUENCE […]
In the avalanche of analysis and speculation about Chief Justice Roberts’ stunning decision to side with the Supreme Court’s liberal wing to uphold Obama’s healthcare law, one strain paints Roberts […]
Behind the plateau in corporate AI lies a surge in personal and agentic use.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
In “On Liberalism," Cass Sunstein argues that liberalism can only endure if we reclaim its core commitments and revive its spirit of freedom and hope for the future.
It's the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it's still not the very beginning of everything.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Here in our Universe, time passes at a fixed rate for all observers: one second-per-second. Before the Big Bang, things were very different.
Since 1998, we've known our Universe isn't just expanding, but the expansion is accelerating. Could the Big Bang itself be the reason why?
"For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD."
Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.
A study on the “moral circles” of liberals and conservatives gets drafted into the culture wars — with mixed results.
From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn't want to put their name on the cover.
First discovered in the mid-1960s, no cosmic signal has taught us more about the Universe, or spurred more controversy, than the CMB.
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
For nearly 60 years, the hot Big Bang has been accepted as the best story of our cosmic origin. Could the Steady-State theory be possible?