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No claim has even made it halfway up the Confidence of Life Detection (CoLD) scale, but 21st century science is just beginning to unfold.

Here in our modern Universe, it's cosmic dust that forms planets, complex molecules, and enables life. But how did the Universe create it?

Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.

In this excerpt from Think Like a Mathematician, Junaid Mubeen explains how tiny actions can shape complex systems, revealing the limits of prediction and control in our lives.

13.8 billion years have passed since the Big Bang, but many stars will survive for longer than that. What's the longest-lived a star can be?

Astronomer Jill Tarter explains why SETI is really about technology, patience, and learning how to tell alien signals from our own.

I'm definitely a Kitsune, but would a Kitsune actually say that?

What 150-year-old Japanese workshop Kaikado can teach us about finding calm through focus in an age of distraction.

In this excerpt from How to Live a Meaningful Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans discuss how flow transforms ordinary moments into deeply human experiences.

"Rationalism is the idea that, in order to truly know something, you have to be able to describe it explicitly."

Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that's visible from Earth, and then some!

Kelly Corrigan on why humility fuels curiosity — and how to cultivate these qualities in an age of certainty.

Many collaborations have used JWST to take deep-field images: some wider and some deeper than others. Here's how it can surpass them all.

Great companies are built on intention, not instinct. Music mogul and entrepreneur Steve Stoute, often called “the CEO other CEOs turn to for advice,” shares what it takes to become a strong leader.

Liz Tran makes the case for a new kind of intelligence that addresses our ability to handle today’s ever-fluctuating challenges: AQ.

A century ago, quantum physics overthrew our view of a deterministic Universe. A profound 21st century theorem closes the door even further.

In this excerpt from Flourish, Daniel Coyle shares how stillness, presence, and attention help people build meaningful connections.

Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.

“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it's still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it's still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”

Why we should balance innovation with stewardship — while reframing the “techno-optimists versus doomers” polarization.