The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here's how that's possible.

Some books are remembered for their lyrical prose or engaging stories. Others are remembered for simply being weird.

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"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren't the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.

“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”

With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.

Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.

In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.

A conversation with the legendary VC on his latest book, his work at Techstars, and why “give first” is more than a motto — it’s a mindset.

Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.

The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.

If you want the best shot at long-term success, it can pay to supplement hot-shots with seasoned industry veterans.

From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.

When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn't know. Here's how far we've come.

“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”

Once you cross a black hole's event horizon, there's no going back. But inside, could creating a singularity give birth to a new Universe?

Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.