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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.
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?
Jamir Nazir says “The Serpent in the Grove” came from a childhood memory. The internet said it came from a machine.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, causing a mass extinction. Without advance warning, could anyone have spotted it?
With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you'd think.
Throwing away the narratives that pull us down and make us unhappy.
The first one, NGC 1052-DF2, was mired in controversy. With four examples now, there only remains one possible escape. What does nature say?
A specific behavior might help explain the stereotype, recent research suggests.