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With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?

The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city’s worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here’s why.

“The rise of the internet brought about similar fears, yet it ultimately made learning richer and more accessible.”

Here’s the dark side of first contact.

The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.

Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.

Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there’s a happy medium to be found.

The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.

Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.

“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.

More than any other equation in physics, E = mc² is recognizable and profound. But what do we actually learn about reality from it?

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed’s true nature.

Many of us look at black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners: sucking in everything in their vicinity. But it turns out they don’t suck at all.

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

Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic “The Personal MBA” — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.

“Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language.”

“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”

Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?

Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a “school without a master” than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.

25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn’t among them.

Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.

“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”

Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.

The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

50 years ago, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and eventually decay away. That fate may now apply to everything.