The Santa Fe Institute is a cradle of modern research. Our host Kmele meets some of the brilliant minds who work there.

The NFL icon talks overcoming a difficult childhood and what’s needed to succeed in a world where the cards are stacked against you.

Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.

In 1667, a core-collapse supernova happened right here in the Milky Way, invisible to all humans. ~350 years later, here's what JWST sees.

Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.

We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.

See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

The combined intellectual heft of multiple “big thinkers” delivered arguably the most successful scientific theory in history.

Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the "silent evidence."

What do ghosts and anomalous galaxy rotation rates have in common? Some sci-fi enthusiasts believe the answer involves "parallel universes."

Sometimes, going "deeper" doesn't reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA's Euclid mission shines.

Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.

By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.

If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?

Bathtubs and toilets each got their own rooms until health professionals urged architects to put all the plumbing in one room.

Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?

Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.

Many countries' histories are governed by the familiar demographic story of growth, industrialization, and decline. But not France.

What a long strange trip it's been.

AI was key to making Moderna's COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

In 1054, a core-collapse supernova occurred 6500 light-years away. In 2023, JWST imaged the remnant, and might solve a massive mystery.

Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.

Through humility, the old arrogance of infallibility crumbles. And in that there is genuine hope to prevent wrongful convictions.

Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.

These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.

What worked before won’t necessarily work this time — and the best leaders will adapt.

"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.