John Jay Hopkins’s visit to Japan in 1955, as an informal emissary of “Atoms for Peace,” must have seemed surreal to everyone… | Continue reading
In their film, The Witness Is a Whale, filmmakers Nick and Cheryl Dean take us on a remarkable journey to understand the private lives… | Continue reading
David McComas has a favorite “astrosphere,” the environment created by a star’s stellar wind as it buffets the surrounding interstellar… | Continue reading
Remember domino theory? One country going Communist was supposed to topple the next, and then the next, and the next. The metaphor… | Continue reading
David McComas has a favorite “astrosphere,” the environment created by a star’s stellar wind as it buffets the surrounding interstellar… | Continue reading
At first, they trickle in: one bird here, a few birds there. Then, at dusk’s cue, a dark smudge materializes on the horizon. Thousands… | Continue reading
John Jay Hopkins’s visit to Japan in 1955, as an informal emissary of “Atoms for Peace,” must have seemed surreal to everyone… | Continue reading
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.” So concluded William James in thinking about that most basic of riddles:… | Continue reading
When Mozambique’s civil war ended in 1992, more than 1 million people had lost their lives. Another 5 million were displaced. And… | Continue reading
The natural world is a feast of color and pattern, but what is it all for? An orange tiger seems awfully conspicuous stalking its… | Continue reading
When Mozambique’s civil war ended in 1992, more than 1 million people had lost their lives. Another 5 million were displaced. And… | Continue reading
The natural world is a feast of color and pattern, but what is it all for? An orange tiger seems awfully conspicuous stalking its… | Continue reading
Terri Randall’s hope when he makes films about space exploration—like Chasing Pluto, for example, or Death Dive to Saturn—is… | Continue reading
In their film, The Witness Is a Whale, filmmakers Nick and Cheryl Dean take us on a remarkable journey to understand the private lives… | Continue reading
Most American newborns will arrive home from the hospital and start hitting their developmental milestones, to their parents’ delight.… | Continue reading
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Setting: Chesterfield High, an unusual school in the suburbs of Ohio.The teacher writes on the board:2, 3, 5, 7, ...How, he asks,… | Continue reading
I had barely stepped foot over the threshold and I already felt claustrophobic. I wanted to turn back. People shuffled into the room… | Continue reading
The genes that shape how educated you eventually become don’t necessarily have to be passed on to you.Photo Illustration by Peshkova… | Continue reading
I had barely stepped foot over the threshold and I already felt claustrophobic. I wanted to turn back. People shuffled into the room… | Continue reading
Our brains can play the worst tricks on us. They are always looking to explain and categorize incoming stimuli, sometimes perceiving… | Continue reading
Setting: Chesterfield High, an unusual school in the suburbs of Ohio.The teacher writes on the board:2, 3, 5, 7, ...How, he asks,… | Continue reading
Let me tell you what it’s like to be an astrobiologist.I painted a white picket fence this summer. No one asked me to. It was a… | Continue reading
The overwhelming success of Einstein’s theory was the final blow for Newton’s absolute space—but without absolute space, we… | Continue reading
Last month, Harvard University named a new Chief Chaplain: Greg Epstein, an atheist. As reported in The New York Times,1 Epstein,… | Continue reading
Do you ever feel like someone is watching you? They could be. And I’m not talking about the odd neighbors at the end of your street.This… | Continue reading
Let me tell you what it’s like to be an astrobiologist.I painted a white picket fence this summer. No one asked me to. It was a… | Continue reading
Last month, Harvard University named a new Chief Chaplain: Greg Epstein, an atheist. As reported in The New York Times,1 Epstein,… | Continue reading
Stephen McGreevy looked nervously at the sky. Outside his camper van in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, angry black clouds gathered… | Continue reading
If we medically insulate, or precipitously shield, emerging adults from introspection and struggle, from the work of figuring out… | Continue reading
If we medically insulate, or precipitously shield, emerging adults from introspection and struggle, from the work of figuring out… | Continue reading
Our General Resonance Theory of consciousness, a framework with a panpsychist foundation, may, at least in theory, provide more complete… | Continue reading
The following is adapted from a speech Roger Payne gave at this year’s Interspecies Internet conference. His remarks have been lightly… | Continue reading
It’s been more than 50 years since biologist Roger Payne brought whale song into the lives of millions via the popular album, Songs… | Continue reading
The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the… | Continue reading
The following is adapted from a speech Roger Payne gave at this year’s Interspecies Internet conference. His remarks have been lightly… | Continue reading
Our General Resonance Theory of consciousness, a framework with a panpsychist foundation, may, at least in theory, provide more complete… | Continue reading
Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter… | Continue reading
I walked out of the airlock onto the blood-red Martian surface. My mind was crystal clear and laser focused. There was no room for… | Continue reading
I walked out of the airlock onto the blood-red Martian surface. My mind was crystal clear and laser focused. There was no room for… | Continue reading
What is the role of reasonable doubt in advancing science? And how should we contrast scientific doubt with the cavilling doubt of… | Continue reading
Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter… | Continue reading
There are ways we get smarter with age, even in the domain of fluid intelligence.Photo Illustration by meboonstudio / ShutterstockMany… | Continue reading
Science is not just something we do at school or professionals undertake in labs. It is at the heart of how everything works. With… | Continue reading
“Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under… | Continue reading
In high school, Daniel Stein built a solar-powered car and drove it across the country. “I got to see the possibility of doing something… | Continue reading
Science is not just something we do at school or professionals undertake in labs. It is at the heart of how everything works. With… | Continue reading
“Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under… | Continue reading