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Small signals of warmth can dramatically change how people respond to you.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
Higher productivity drives increases in wealth, wages, and living standards. AI could be just what we need to solve many of today’s problems — if we manage the gains wisely.
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Jim Al-Khalili explains how the past and future are more fluid than we may think.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
Many organizations are missing a key catalyst for excellence — and it’s not a new software program or workplace perk.
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The biggest obstacle to discovering life in space? Not distance. Not capability. It’s ambiguity — and it’s built into science. MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager explains.
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That's why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
A preview of the latest book by Chinese history expert Charlotte Brooks
Over billions of years, fewer stars form, galaxies mutually recede, and the Universe becomes ever darker. Here's how fast it all happens.
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Historian Eric Cline argues the Bronze Age collapse wasn't the work of one invading force or one bad harvest, but something far harder to stop: An overly interdependent system that had no way to absorb multiple shocks at once.
A preview of the latest novel by the New York Times bestselling author.
Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the known Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever: from a physics perspective.
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The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.
A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.
Anne Lamott and Neal Allen join us to discuss why embracing constraints can be the best way to find freedom in the craft.
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Jim Al-Khalili introduces the technologies emerging from the second quantum revolution.
Not everyone accepts the scientific consensus; some even make careers out of challenging it. But only a select few do it the right way.