Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
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The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
Donate a kidney now, and your loved one will have priority status if they need one later.
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
When constructed well, post-training survey questions can provide a wealth of information that helps guide future design decisions.
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Coupled with 3D printing, biomining the Moon or Mars with microbes could sustain human colonies without constant re-supply from Earth.
The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
It’s time to put on your listening hat.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
It’s about 7.6 million times faster than what you probably have at home.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
“Kids are always asking two questions of parents: ‘Am I safe?’ and ‘Am I real?'”