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Neuroscience suggests that it's way better to give than to receive — and high performing people agree.
1hr 25mins
Richard Reeves explains the big problems facing men today — and why no one is talking about them.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST's eyes, astronomers found so much more.
The "island rule" hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
4mins
Forget AI. Gene editing is still our most powerful — and dangerous — technology.
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
The discovery has enormous implications for the development of novel anti-anxiety medications.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.
Mars, the red planet, was a world we knew almost nothing about until our first spacecraft visited it. In just ~50 years, how far we've come!
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
John Templeton Foundation
I think, therefore I am (rich).
6mins
From DMT elves, to God, to the figures in our dreams — why are humans so obsessed with the supernatural?
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?