Will your grandchildren live in cities on Antarctica?

Past or present, if there’s ever been any life at all, it changes everything. “They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonized’ it. So technically, I colonized […]

How do you even study thinking from that long ago?  

Your bones would "explode."

AI is capable of self-reproduction—should humans be worried?

Clashes between "antifa" on the far left and the alt-right have intensified.

How we remember time is vastly different to how we experience it, says neuroscientist Dean Buonomano.

A commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medication may have killed the Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. 

Dark energy may be real and the Universe may be accelerating, but does that mean a Big Freeze is inevitable? “It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in […]

Is our existence base reality—or are we pawns in a matrix? Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explains how we might be able to tell.

Will Smith defends entry of non-theatrical Netflix movies at Cannes.

Has Google become our modern confessional? Former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz discusses how Google knows you better than your friends and family–maybe even yourself. He is the author of Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. 

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the mind-boggling awesomeness of space. 

University of Houston researchers discover a catalyst that may make commercial-scale hydrogen extraction from water possible.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Mary Gaitskill on vulnerability, alienation, and Cerebus the Aardvark. 

Sam Harris talks with David Deutsch about how modern people are already living like astronauts.

Five independent images point to an incredible, single story, but the mystery of how it was created still remains. “The origin and evolution of life are connected in the most intimate […]

Not long ago, most people would probably judge how trustworthy you were based entirely on your physical appearance. Today, we know that kind of thinking is a dangerous pseudoscience.

Our hands lead us to certain choices, according to Zachary Estes of Bocconi University.   

Anxiety can be a force for good, writes Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön.