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Nature evolved swarm intelligence in species like bees and fish. New AI-powered communication systems could help humans devise their own “collective superintelligence.”
Oort cloud object Bernardinelli–Bernstein has the largest known cometary nucleus: 119 km wide. An impact with Earth would be catastrophic.
The family might be a terrible way to raise kids. But it's the best we have.
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angel Down, Daniel Kraus uses a single unbroken sentence to convey the psychological toll of being a soldier in World War I.
The Universe took a great many steps to create not just life, but intelligent life, here at home. What can we say about life beyond Earth?
The road to emancipation began when enslaved Americans seized an opportunity for freedom and forced the nation to reckon with slavery's role in the Civil War.
The anthropic principle has fascinating scientific uses, where the simple fact of our existence holds deep physical lessons. Don't abuse it!
Vast arrays of planets, stars, black holes, galaxies, and more populate our Universe. Within each category, differences can be astounding.
Contracting gas clouds don't just make a single star, but a spectrum, with all different masses. Early on, that spectrum differed. But why?
Neuroscientist Anil Seth on the deep differences between human minds and artificial ones.
Protons and neutrons are composite structures: made of quarks and gluons. But knowing they had substructure goes back long before that.
Our motivations and sense of self may be more deeply shaped by our connections and social history than we think.
If you're going to relax, don't do it halfway.
Yes, "the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But relativity itself would have to be wrong for black holes to not possess them.
Get clear on what you actually have to offer.
From mysterious villages to absurdism at the gallows, these books explore the origins, consequences, and possible responses to nihilism.
Long before “move fast and break things,” aerospace pioneer Kelly Johnson built the Skunk Works — Lockheed Martin’s R&D arm famous for its problem-solving and revolutionary creations.
It's the Universe's ultimate chicken-and-egg question: what came first, the galaxy or the black hole? One Little Red Dot proves the answer.
Soccer emerged from chaotic folk games, elite school rivalries, and evolving rules that transformed a rough pastime into the beautiful game.
In 2016, humanity announced our first successful gravitational wave detection. 10 years and 389 events later, here's how far we've come.