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Julius Caesar conquered Gaul but his emotional intelligence was pitiful — and there’s plenty we can learn from his leadership deficiencies.
No claim has even made it halfway up the Confidence of Life Detection (CoLD) scale, but 21st century science is just beginning to unfold.
Here in our modern Universe, it's cosmic dust that forms planets, complex molecules, and enables life. But how did the Universe create it?
Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.
In this excerpt from Think Like a Mathematician, Junaid Mubeen explains how tiny actions can shape complex systems, revealing the limits of prediction and control in our lives.
13.8 billion years have passed since the Big Bang, but many stars will survive for longer than that. What's the longest-lived a star can be?
I'm definitely a Kitsune, but would a Kitsune actually say that?
What 150-year-old Japanese workshop Kaikado can teach us about finding calm through focus in an age of distraction.
In this excerpt from How to Live a Meaningful Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans discuss how flow transforms ordinary moments into deeply human experiences.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that's visible from Earth, and then some!
Kelly Corrigan on why humility fuels curiosity — and how to cultivate these qualities in an age of certainty.
John Templeton Foundation
Many collaborations have used JWST to take deep-field images: some wider and some deeper than others. Here's how it can surpass them all.
Liz Tran makes the case for a new kind of intelligence that addresses our ability to handle today’s ever-fluctuating challenges: AQ.
A century ago, quantum physics overthrew our view of a deterministic Universe. A profound 21st century theorem closes the door even further.
In this excerpt from Flourish, Daniel Coyle shares how stillness, presence, and attention help people build meaningful connections.
Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.
Why we should balance innovation with stewardship — while reframing the “techno-optimists versus doomers” polarization.
The Universe formed stars, galaxies, and even galaxy clusters extremely early on in our cosmos. This new marvel is one more JWST surprise.
At the upper limits of what's energetically possible, cosmic rays still persist. What happens if a human gets hit by the most energetic one?
The revival of Pasto Varnish shows how living heritage can survive if knowledge is passed on in time.