Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."

It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.

Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."

Large, massive, rotating galaxies like the Milky Way are common today. So how could one form a mere ~2 billion years after the Big Bang?

Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

For centuries, even after we knew the Sun was a star like any other, we still didn't know what it was made of. Cecilia Payne changed that.

The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.

In his book, "Birds, Sex and Beauty," Matt Ridley explores why learning isn't always nature versus nurture.

Someday, we'll look back and see a young galaxy forming stars for the first time. JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest ever, isn't early enough.

Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.

She was searching for perfection – until she discovered what she truly needed by letting go of what didn’t fit.