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Designed to map galaxies, the SPHEREx mission's first science result is instead about interstellar interloper 3I/ATLAS. No, it's not aliens.
You are held, shaped, and sustained by a thousand invisible hands.
Venture capitalist and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake talks to Big Think about why AI won’t make the internet better, her influences beyond tech, and more.
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Virtue is hard to attain, and that’s the point. Sarah Schnitker explains why self-help shortcuts miss the mark.
In our own Milky Way, a recently deceased star creates a ghostly, hand-like shape in X-rays some 150 light-years wide. Here's how it's made.
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“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
Throughout history, "free energy" has been a scammer's game, such as perpetual motion. But with zero-point energy, is it actually possible?
In “The Secret History of Denisovans,” Silvana Condemi and François Savatier trace the story of our mysterious hominin ancestor.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“You can be aware of sadness from a point of view that is not merely sad, and you can be aware of fear from a point of view that's not merely afraid.”
There could be variables beyond the ones we've identified and know how to measure. But they can't get rid of quantum weirdness.
Sikh American scholar and historian Simran Jeet Singh on helping kids imagine — and create — a more empathetic world.
John Templeton Foundation
A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.
“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.
A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.
Science helps us imagine the vastness of space and time — and our small but meaningful place within it.
"Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be."
The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
A universal signature could make surgeries safer — and help reveal what holds consciousness together.