Science

Richard Davidson says repeated meditation states can become lasting traits in the brain. Richard Davidson says repeated meditation states can become lasting traits in the brain.

Pollan says psychedelics shattered his default materialism, leading him from altered states and uncanny encounters with plants to a deeper inquiry into consciousness itself.

The most surprising insight is that muscles heal shorter, not longer—during sleep and recovery, the repair process naturally ratchets muscles into a slightly contracted state, which is why stretching at night can counteract this tendency and improve long-term flexibility and leve

From 1930s strobes that helped win D-Day to cameras that film light itself, the century-long quest to freeze time.

David Eagleman reveals why your brain arrives half-baked, why time speeds up as you age, and why you should never trust your future self

Professor Tim Spector reveals the gut-brain connection that overturns 40 years of psychiatry

Asbestos found in childrens cosmetics in 2017 and still kills 10000 Americans per year

The incredible 30-year story of ASML's EUV lithography machine — the impossible $400M device that saved Moore's Law and makes every advanced chip on Earth.

The clearest visual explanation of the attention mechanism: queries, keys, values, multi-headed attention, and how GPT-3 uses 58 billion parameters

Grant Sanderson makes topology fun by proving why you can never comb a hairy ball flat.

Meta employees called themselves drug pushers in internal chats. TikTok gives Chinese kids healthy content and American kids digital crack. The science is clear.

A dog's affection killed its elderly owner. A mother performed a C-section on herself with a kitchen knife. And a woman dreamed of her own death — then it happened.