Design, materialism, and the search for purpose in a fine-tuned universe.

The conventional wisdom holds that entrepreneurs should identify unsolved problems and create novel solutions. But that approach misses where the real leverage exists right now. Established industries ...

About midway through Derek Thompson’s and Ezra Klein’s viral manifesto, Abundance, glares a line that calls back repeatedly, like a spell, through example after example of American business and ...

Toward this end, a new film to be released on April 30, entitled, “The Story of Everything,” takes you on a journey through ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Arthur M. Sackler was educated in the arts, sciences, and humanities at New York University. These interests remained the focus of his life, as he became widely known as a ...

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...