Some people are always at war.

Brian Cox examines why, despite billions of stars and trillions of planets, we have found no evidence of other intelligent life.

No civilization, no matter how successful, can last forever. What does the non-detection of intelligent aliens mean for our own longevity?

Throughout history, the ability to tell increasingly believable stories has become available to more people. Kevin Ashton says that’s a blessing and a curse.

When people born blind gain sight, the hardest part isn’t opening their eyes — it’s teaching the brain how to see.

The quiet transfer of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence.

Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines.

Ambition. Descent. Wisdom.

The great Chinese philosopher offers a durable and practical blueprint for harmonizing with our work colleagues.

The fundamental building blocks of reality are indivisible: quanta that cannot be split or divided. Our understanding remains incomplete.

What’s in a number? Only a vanishingly small slice of your life, it turns out.

Long after the last star burns out, the Universe will experience its end state: a heat death. Will everything prior then be meaningless?

Alain de Botton argues that our romantic lives are shaped more by the emotional patterns we learned in childhood than by destiny.

Science fiction romanticized Mars as a place of adventure and future settlement; science tells a very different story.

Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.

Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.

Speculative evolution explores the strange paths natural selection might have taken — and what that means for humans.

Some sci-fi aliens are wildly implausible. Others aren’t so far-fetched.

"Broadly speaking, it's at least plausible, this might be right."

Military satellite research brought us GPS. Astronomers influenced medical imaging tech. What would be invented after we discover alien life? Professor Sara Seager explains the consequences of such a groundbreaking discovery.

The benefits of mathematical literacy reach far beyond the realm of numbers and equations.

In this excerpt from The Laws of Thought, Tom Griffiths shares how George Boole developed a mathematical theory of logic.

How many stupid acts does it take to make a person stupid?

The "Creativity Pioneers" proving that imagination is a practical tool for social transformation.

Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul but his emotional intelligence was pitiful — and there’s plenty we can learn from his leadership deficiencies.

Happiness collapses the moment hardship arrives. Joy doesn’t. Historian Kate Bowler explains why joy can coexist with pain — and why that makes it a stronger, more fulfilling emotion.

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?