“The explosion packed roughly a billion years of the sun’s energy output into a pencil-thin beam”

A quantum information scientist on the hunt for the elemental mediator of gravity and why AI can’t solve physics problems creatively

A ring of debris hints at planetary survivors

A historical study makes a compelling case

Maybe there are a few things we can still learn from it

It will not

And vice versa

Happiness pioneers recently gathered to discuss the good life

Their brains don’t sync the same way when it comes to processing empathy

Has the Amazon reached the dreaded tipping point?

Something is amiss in Antarctica

In Ethiopia, scientists documented repeated sex and bonding between a bull and a male donkey

Their songs provide a new way to monitor their feeding behavior

And likely gobbled up its smaller cephalopod relatives for lunch

A conversation with three Harvard professors about the practice of wisdom in everyday living

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk

People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby