This carriage maker didn’t get wiped out by the automobile. Instead, it became one of the most successful car businesses in European history.

How a culture of independence gave rise to a philosophy of self-reliance, solitude, and inner authority.

A conversation with Richard Haass about reorienting the U.S. toward long-term thinking and reinstating global stability into the 22nd century.

A conversation with the Hardcore History host on executive power, political independents, and how America drifted into partisan dysfunction.

From Gilded Age space dreams to AI’s cosmic endgame, fiction reveals how the drive to shed obligations to others can escalate.

A nostalgia-fueled real-world renaissance is underway, led by young adults striving to counter the cultural pessimism and division that pervades much of online life.

With the U.S. stepping away from international organizations en masse, the groups are being forced to find a new balance.

Trying to solve one’s existential dread by finding a singular purpose is a game won only by not playing.

Philosopher Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education.

The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely.

The LIGO facilities in the U.S. are the most sensitive gravitational wave detectors in the world. Their future remains uncertain.

We used to think the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before it, erasing everything that existed prior.

At "only" 25 meters in diameter, the Giant Magellan Telescope is the smallest of three current projects. That might make all the difference.

Being always available is costly. Here's how to reclaim your sharpest hours.

Miramax's explosive success with Pulp Fiction ignited an indie boom, rewrote Oscar campaigns, and blurred the line between independent cinema and the Hollywood mainstream.

What do the laws of physics, biological evolution, and your free will have in common? The same mathematical principle runs through all of them. Stephen Wolfram has spent 40 years finding it.

Using the newest large-scale structure data, a team of researchers announced a huge cosmic anisotropy in Nature. Too bad it's wrong.

Over 800,000 fireworks explode in under an hour in the world's largest fireworks shows. How do natural auroral displays compare in energy?

Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented. 

Jamir Nazir says “The Serpent in the Grove” came from a childhood memory. The internet said it came from a machine.