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Two glowing spheres, one red and one green, face each other in space with a wavy line of light—like a particle physics collision—connecting them against a speckled dark background reminiscent of the last collider’s discoveries.
Will we build a successor collider to the LHC? Someday, we'll reach the true limit of what experiments can probe. But that won't be the end.
A man sits on a stool in front of a white backdrop with a black circle behind his head, surrounded by colorful, nebula-like clouds.
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“Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works?”
Three different 3D protein structures are displayed on a light grid-patterned background, each occupying a separate quadrant in the image.
By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.
A visual simulation of two objects orbiting and merging, distorting a red-orange grid representing spacetime—illustrating gravitational waves once thought to be the worst prediction in science.
The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what's predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?
Book cover titled "After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People" by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, featuring a population spike graph set against a blue background, highlighting themes of population and environment.
In "After the Spike," Dean Spears and Michael Geruso show why policy, rather than high population density, has the most significant impact on the environment.
Collage featuring photos of wildlife, ancient stone carvings, and a camel, with the text "THE NIGHTCRAWLER" at the top on a gray grid background—an homage to Sean B. Carroll’s explorations of nature and history.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A radio telescope points at the night sky, where stars are arranged in the shape of a large question mark.
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"We've sent out one or two little messages, but we certainly aren't investing billions of dollars shouting out into the cosmos saying, "Hey, we are here. Come say hi.""