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Reusable rockets, moon landers, civilian astronauts, and more.

How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.

“Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body.”

You’ve got to know when to fight and when to laugh.

In 1987, the closest supernova directly observed in nearly 400 years occurred. Will a pulsar arise from those ashes? JWST offers clues.

Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”

There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.

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

Implanting machine components into human bodies, argues one scholar, could make for a better society.

Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

It didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, but I’d be a great fool to consider “aliens” as a reasonable possibility.

In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.

Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.

In some organizations “founder mode” can become synonymous with over-reliance. Here’s how to avoid the pitfalls of “apparent irreplaceability.”

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

Quality down time is important for relationships. Here are three practical suggestions to create more of it.

In post-Soviet nations where ministers have a relatively high BMI, corruption tends to be high, too.

Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.

From emotional intelligence to problem solving, these management training topics will set team leaders up for success.

How scientists are hearing the gravitational background “hum” of the Universe for the very first time.

Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you’ll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn’t the Big Bang become one?

The corporate unicorn was yesterday — now we should consider the wisdom of black and white stripes.

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

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

In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.

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

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.