There are a few small cosmic details that, if things were just a little different, wouldn't have allowed our existence to be possible.

"I have a friend who thinks vaccines cause autism," writes Nina. "What can I do?"

"I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies."

The truly talented are those who got to where they are despite preconceived expectations.

When we see pictures from Hubble or JWST, they show the Universe in a series of brilliant colors. But what do those colors really tell us?

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

How did life on Earth begin? Is there life on other worlds? An answer to either question will reflect heavily on the other. 

Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science … and Jerry Seinfeld's "Night Guy vs. Morning Guy" routine.

In partisan political times, recognizing the scientific truth is more important than ever. Scientists must be vocal and clear about reality.

The color of the shirt you're wearing right now depends on many factors, from your eye shape to what language you speak.

There’s little more infuriating in the world than being told to “calm down” when you’re in the midst of a simmering grump.

Humans, when we consider space travel, recognize the need for gravity. Without our planet, is artificial or antigravity even possible?

In 1980, Willy Brandt drew a line across the map that still influences how we think about the world.

Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.

“What happens if you incorporate an AI? It's now a legal person, and it can make decisions by itself. So you start having legal persons in the U.S., which are not human, and in many ways are more intelligent than us.”

A crowdsourced "final exam" for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here's how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

Philosopher Peter Singer argues it's time to examine a morally dubious practice.

Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.

How the successful marketer used ancient philosophy to overcome modern obstacles and change his mindset.

Whether your hair is straight, wavy, curly, or kinky isn't just genetic in nature. It depends on the physics of your hair's very atoms.