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An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future.

In this premier episode, the hosts ask astronomer Jill Tarter who or what’s out there.

Contrary to what the philosopher said, passion can be a slave to reason.

The psychologist unpacks rationality and denies being a guru to the capitalist elite.

The story of dinosaurs is also the story of capitalism.

An illustrated guide to the universal laws in your kitchen.

Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration by Yurchanka Siarhei / Shutterstock Last year, the cover of New Scientist ran the headline, “Is the Universe Conscious?” Mathematician and physicist Johannes Kleiner, at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Germany, told […]

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Physicists quantify this tendency to […]

Belief is a special kind of human power. Agustin Fuentes, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, eloquently claims as much in his recent book Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being. It’s the “most prominent, promising, and dangerous capacity humanity has evolved,” he writes, the power to “see and feel […]

A prominent evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism.