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A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.

Some people are always at war.

Throughout history, the ability to tell increasingly believable stories has become available to more people. Kevin Ashton says that’s a blessing and a curse.

The quiet transfer of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence.

Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines.

Ambition. Descent. Wisdom.

The fundamental building blocks of reality are indivisible: quanta that cannot be split or divided. Our understanding remains incomplete.

What’s in a number? Only a vanishingly small slice of your life, it turns out.

Long after the last star burns out, the Universe will experience its end state: a heat death. Will everything prior then be meaningless?

Alain de Botton argues that our romantic lives are shaped more by the emotional patterns we learned in childhood than by destiny.

Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.

Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.

Speculative evolution explores the strange paths natural selection might have taken — and what that means for humans.

Some sci-fi aliens are wildly implausible. Others aren’t so far-fetched.

"Broadly speaking, it's at least plausible, this might be right."

Military satellite research brought us GPS. Astronomers influenced medical imaging tech. What would be invented after we discover alien life? Professor Sara Seager explains the consequences of such a groundbreaking discovery.

The benefits of mathematical literacy reach far beyond the realm of numbers and equations.

In this excerpt from The Laws of Thought, Tom Griffiths shares how George Boole developed a mathematical theory of logic.

How many stupid acts does it take to make a person stupid?