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Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.
Two main contributors enabled our modern global positioning system (GPS): Albert Einstein and Gladys West. Here's how she made it happen.
The Sun often produces solar flares and coronal mass ejections, but a rare solar radiation storm made the 2026's first great auroral show.
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
Many view the development of fringe, alternative theories as a useless waste of time. But when they can be tested, it shows what reality is.
AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.
Three virtues every good leader must develop.
With unprecedented resolution, wavelength sensitivity, and light-gathering power, JWST reveals our cosmos like no other observatory ever.
People don't want you to buy their stories — they want you to listen to them.
Gravitational lenses arise when foreground masses and background light sources properly align. Einstein rings are rare, but crosses abound.
A tour of the literary cover-ups, extraterrestrials, and cryptids lurking in the bookish backwoods.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
It's not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
The deep study of friction and surfaces — so crucial to industrial manufacture — emerged from a mid-century engineering conference.
The VENUS survey isn't about planets at all, but about finding multiply-lensed supernovae. The ambition? To save the expanding Universe.
The Havana Syndrome mystery took a strange turn following a CNN report that outlined how the Pentagon had purchased a device through an undercover operation — one that some investigators believe could help explain the illnesses.
AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.