Matt Strassler's journey into fundamental physics culminates in a brilliant explanation of the Higgs field. Enjoy this exclusive interview.

Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.

Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy was only spotted because of gravitational lensing's effects. Yet galaxies like these brought us a visible cosmos.

A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.

The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."

Just because you can't experience it doesn't mean it's not real.

We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.

“If we're to be happy at all, it has to be found outside of this notion of pleasure. We have to step beyond hedonia. But the problem is that we risk going too far.”

By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That's utter nonsense here.

Encouraging thoughtful responses over impulsive reactions can help prevent AI exploitation in decision-making.

For a substantial part of human history, people thought smoking tobacco was perfectly healthy. Native American tribes, who introduced the tobacco plant to Europeans and — by extension, the rest […]

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Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.

What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?

The problem for galactic-scale civilizations comes down to two numbers.

“Self-awareness, it's the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”

If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can't two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why.