It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.

“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”

With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.

A conversation with the legendary VC on his latest book, his work at Techstars, and why “give first” is more than a motto — it’s a mindset.

Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.

The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.

Once you cross a black hole's event horizon, there's no going back. But inside, could creating a singularity give birth to a new Universe?

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From high school through the professional ranks, physicists still take incredible lessons away from Newton's second law.

It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.

How deep is your kink?

Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.

The benefits of compassion in the workplace are manifold — but leaders should retain an intentional focus on mental, emotional, and physical balance.

No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all.

After more than a million years of separation, two branches of humanity reunited around 300,000 years ago, suggests new research.

In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.

“By not focusing on the outcome and instead designing a tiny experiment, what you can do is letting go of any definition of success, letting go of that binary results that you're looking for, and instead focusing something that makes you feel curious and that you want to explore.”

Philosopher Meghan Sullivan challenges the idea that religious texts can’t be taken seriously in modern philosophy. She explains how parables, scripture, and debate have always been connected to asking life’s biggest questions:

“Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works?”

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