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From snowboarding crows to salmon-hat orcas, scientists are uncovering the deeper evolutionary purposes of play.
From early arcades to AI-generated worlds, video games have continually expanded the “magic circle” of play.
Wargames are helping answer one of the biggest questions of the AI era: how machines might reshape human decision-making in war.
Many people, now with LLM assistance, regularly claim to discover game-changing revolutions. Scientists don't buy it. You shouldn't either.
Directives rarely inspire change. The most effective leaders use stories to make transformation memorable, resonant, and actionable.
Despite all that we've discovered, Earth remains the only planet definitively known to possess life. Here's how to find a second example.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider superseded Fermilab's TeVatron in 2008, but now nears the end of its run. The ambitious FCC project comes next.
Anxiety feels like a malfunction. Evolutionarily speaking, it's one of your most sophisticated features.
A white rabbit appears up ahead. What do you do?
At and beyond the current frontiers of knowledge, many physicists have strongly held opinions. Can surveys point the way to breakthroughs?
Who do you want to be today?
Feedback only feels high-stakes when you've been saving it up.
America’s first Gilded Age reveals how concentrated economic power erodes democracy and offers a warning as similar forces reemerge today.
The original idea of the Big Bang was synonymous with a singularity: a point of zero volume. In this Universe, things never got that small.
Theoretical physics is notorious for wild ideas that seem, at first, to be nonsensical fantasies. That's where the tooth fairy comes in.
Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.
Vague predictions and post hoc revisions help astrology feel meaningful, even while it fails empirical testing.
Why we shouldn't necessarily outsource our thinking to dead people.
Astronomers study our cosmic history through stellar and galactic archaeology. But we can't conduct archaeology in space. At least, not yet.