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Forget about the terawatt lasers we're making on Earth. The Universe makes natural ones thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
Ambition. Descent. Wisdom.
A growing movement shows that protecting the world’s forests — and the people who have safeguarded them for centuries — is one of the most powerful, and overlooked, tools in the fight against climate change.
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To bring the best out of your teams, don’t flex like Maximus — lean into a “helpful fight” instead.
The actor, comedian, and marijuana cultivator on collaboration, success, and overcoming nerves — in business and life.
Even space and time are relative in Einstein's universe. That means our old notions of "where" and "when" no longer apply on cosmic scales.
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
The great Chinese philosopher offers a durable and practical blueprint for harmonizing with our work colleagues.
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Now that love has been liberated, it seems to have become more complicated and more illusive than ever. Alain de Botton explains.
There are plenty of engineering obstacles, and those can be overcome. But you cannot change the laws of physics, and those matter too.
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Toxic positivity isn’t optimism. It’s denial. Historian Kate Bowler explains why our obsession with “good vibes only” is making it harder to cope.
The fundamental building blocks of reality are indivisible: quanta that cannot be split or divided. Our understanding remains incomplete.
What’s in a number? Only a vanishingly small slice of your life, it turns out.
Long after the last star burns out, the Universe will experience its end state: a heat death. Will everything prior then be meaningless?
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Alain de Botton argues that our romantic lives are shaped more by the emotional patterns we learned in childhood than by destiny.
Science fiction romanticized Mars as a place of adventure and future settlement; science tells a very different story.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
A big open question in 21st-century science is how life began here on Earth. The metabolism-first scenario just might be the best one.
The “dystopian” biotech imagined in these novels is now changing real lives for the better.
From global DNA screening standards to safeguards for benchtop synthesizers and AI tools, a new biosecurity playbook is taking shape.