1. Brightest-ever lensed supernova reveals astronomy’s coming revolution

2. Starts With A Bang podcast #124 – Astrochemistry

3. America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal eerily familiar fault lines

4. Ask Ethan: How do LLMs/chatbots impact students and cheating?

5. Michio Kaku: How quantum computers compute in multiple universes at once

6. Five recommendations that will reshape leadership development in 2026

7. Robotaxis offer a path toward smarter and fairer urban mobility

8. The boomer-doomer divide within OpenAI, explained by Karen Hao

9. Why we overcomplicate things

10. Does science reveal the absolute truth about reality?

11. Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion

12. Why your brain needs everyday rituals

13. The art and science of failing well

14. Gravitational lensing is amazing, but won’t solve the Hubble tension

15. AI is a power amplifier. The future depends on who turns the dials.

16. How slime and dumb rocks can help us better define “smart”

17. 10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025

18. “AI can be a force for good”: Arianna Huffington on work, health, and our future

19. What Earth’s most extreme places teach us about being human

20. Collaboration masterclass: How to wrangle disagreements like Bob from Xerox

21. The LHC’s best 2025 discovery points the way to new physics

22. Google fellow: AI doesn’t pretend to be intelligent. It is.

23. Ask Ethan: Can we ever observe a proton decaying?

24. 14 rules to dance with the systems of business and life

25. New discovery sets humanity up to image “alien Earth”

26. How to get your ethically sourced pleasure

27. 3 experts explain your brain’s creativity formula

28. 2025’s Geminids will be the best meteor shower of the year

29. This marine biologist thinks we might soon learn to speak with whales

30. The 4 types of hypocrites (that we actually like)

31. “Surfing the edge”: Tim O’Reilly on how humans can thrive with AI

32. Will new physics affect our Universe’s far future?

33. The rise of AI denialism

34. Find your own tomato war: How to fortify culture through ritual

35. The 9 biggest gaps in our understanding of cosmic history

36. Ask Ethan: What’s the point of exploring the Universe?

37. The costs of turning therapy into a pop culture fad

38. How a criminology concept became the backbone of the U.S.’s Cold War strategy

39. What we can learn from butterflies

40. The illusion of consensus is powerful. Here’s why you should fight it.

41. 10 scientific phenomena to be thankful for every day

42. How your body could outlive the genome you were born with

43. Why the next 25 years will force humanity to reinvent itself

44. 3 ways to cultivate a passion

45. How early attachment scars can impact us forever

46. Will AI decimate consulting?

47. The Moon’s two faces don’t match, and we think we know why

48. Iran’s horrible year: How 2025 is pushing the nation to its limits

49. 3 challenges that AI integration presents in the workplace

50. How one psychedelic trip can alter an entire lifetime

51. Georg Cantor shocked mathematics by proving that not all infinities are equal

52. How the best CEOs turn setbacks into superpowers

53. Supermassive black holes came before stars in ancient galaxies

54. Remote control: Meet “the father of telework”

55. How far back in time can the naked eye see?

56. R.F. Kuang writes through doubt to find her strongest stories

57. 95% of the universe is invisible. Here’s why that should fill us with wonder

58. Ask Ethan: Is there really a “dark side” of the Moon?

59. How large language models view our world

60. Einstein’s cryptids: The disputed, but possible, phenomena of the cosmos

61. The brilliance of boredom

62. Ring galaxies, the rarest galaxy type of all, are finally understood

63. The strongest arguments for and against the existence of God

64. Can neuroscientists read your mind?

65. Why wait for flying cars? Flying boats are already here.

66. The Engine of Progress

67. The common thread of progress

68. Rethinking how we think about progress

69. The termination shock: Where AI progress meets reality

70. 5 books that changed the world for the better

71. The hidden legal engine of progress — from railroads to AI

72. Why culture may be our most powerful lever for progress

73. The grim truth about the “good old days”

74. Future-friendly regulation has a blind spot: the future

75. Beyond completion rates: Engagement, impact, and ROI in L&D

76. Is searching for purpose an inherent human trait? These experts say yes.

77. The spiritual practice of paying attention

78. Chef’s kiss: How to upscale from side hustle to sky’s-the-limit

79. How are redshift, temperature, distance and time related?

80. The roots of AI in Chinese philosophy — and what it could mean for business

81. The word for”wind”: How ancient civilizations explained an invisible force

82. 5 ways to rebuild human connection at speed and scale

83. Jellyfish and bunny ear galaxies have cosmic consequences

84. How innovation reshaped human life in just a few generations

85. From “woke” to “traumatic”: How useful terms become empty buzzwords

86. How to lead from the liminal space where wisdom takes root

87. The decline and fall of stars in the Universe

88. The digital age’s reversion to pre-literate communication

89. The moment every civilization fears: the growth plateau

90. 5 books that teach you how to die well — by living better

91. Ask Ethan: How can we better measure G, the gravitational constant?

92. Why forcing positivity after trauma doesn’t build resilience

93. The Civil War hero who stole a Confederate ship — and changed history

94. The enduring value of a notebook and “long thinking”

95. Light and gravity travel at the same speed, but don’t arrive together

96. To become wiser, society must relearn how to fail

97. The next great leap in evolution may lie beyond Earth

98. What’s more real: time itself, or your perception of it?

99. Why skill plateaus are inevitable – and how to push past them

100. America already has the tools to heal division — we just need to relearn how to use them

101. How to land “the emotional why” of company change

102. The devious trick behind the most sensational science headlines

103. How chance and error shaped every living being on Earth

104. How a scientific mistake from the 1970s derailed Mars exploration

105. How to be ambitious without losing your soul

106. Astronomy’s first gap-clearing planet fills in our “missing link”

107. Silicon Oasis? How a northern English tech startup went global

108. How the “meter” came to be exactly one meter long

109. Starts With A Bang podcast #123 – Alien physics

110. The science of consciousness is solving the biggest illusion in our universe

111. How Rainn Wilson discovered sacredness

112. Ask Ethan: Can Weber bars detect gravitational waves?

113. Why general relativity would’ve been discovered without Einstein

114. Plato meets game theory: How Schelling points explain the power of great books

115. Why desire — not resilience — leads to longevity

116. Our first terraforming goal should be the Moon, not Mars

117. The two types of jokes everyone tells

118. Want to be a better learner? Start by noticing how you think.

119. How the myth of destiny distorts our decisions

120. Want to be more productive? Start by doing less

121. Is the universe conscious? Panpsychism, religion, and the modern search for meaning

122. How the world’s first business bestseller transformed the world

123. How to understand Einstein’s relativity without math

124. Logic Theorist: The program that rewrote the foundations of mathematics

125. We doubled human lifespans in the last 200 years. Can we do it again?

126. Astounding stream of stars caught escaping from nearby galaxy

127. What Steve Jobs learned from Shakespeare’s King Lear

128. The Red Spider Nebula gets its JWST glow-up

129. The truth of Ancient Rome hides under its myth of decadence

130. Ask Ethan: Could evolving dark energy lead to a Big Crunch?

131. “The Devil Is a Southpaw”: A novel by Brandon Hobson

132. A cure for toxic work

133. Groupthink in science isn’t a problem; it’s a myth

134. “The Chinese Job”: Spain’s wild 1580s plan to conquer the world — via Beijing

135. If humans went extinct, could we re-evolve?

136. Can you measure love? 3 experts discuss

137. How facing adversity can help you live a deeper, more meaningful life

138. Resilience is overrated: Unlock the real secret to business longevity

139. Why aliens might not “speak physics” the same way we do

140. Every era believes it is enlightened. Old books teach us otherwise.

141. How accepting impermanence can end the struggle to “fix” your life

142. America’s path to maritime leadership is clear — but it demands urgency

143. Josh Bersin: The Secrets of Crafting Enduring Organizations

144. Wikipedia visionary Jimmy Wales wants innovators to have fun. Seriously

145. Why Einstein called awe the fundamental emotion

146. Burned out without booze? You may have an “introvert hangover”

147. Neutrinos are still the most mysterious particle we know of

148. Macroscopes help us see the invisible connections that tie our world together

149. What all leaders can learn from jazz-inspired military trailblazers

150. Where does the expanding Universe begin?

151. How your cognitive biases lead to terrible investing behaviors

152. Dark AI is fueling cybercrime — and accelerating the cybersecurity arms race

153. Ask Ethan: Why couldn’t the Universe have expanded forever?

154. Why your best ideas come after your worst

155. Every tree, star, and cloud is a compass — If you know how to read it

156. Will AI save us or destroy us?

157. 5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter

158. 6 Japanese concepts you need to know, according to Marie Kondo

159. More than a game: How play helps wire our social brains

160. Is free will a fallacy? Science and philosophy explain.

161. A million qubits? This quantum advisor isn’t buying it.

162. We still don’t know how “hot” the hot Big Bang was

163. What sea slugs can teach us about the nature of consciousness

164. How Royal Caribbean transformed innovation with a weird acronym

165. Red dwarfs aren’t uninhabitable; we’re just impatient

166. The 37% rule: How many people should you date before settling down?

167. The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it

168. Even AI is self-censoring. Here’s why that matters.

169. Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime

170. The West struggles to evaluate threats. Here’s how it can get better.

171. 5 ways immersion in art can boost your work-life happiness

172. Is our first “galaxy-quasar hybrid” also a Little Red Dot?

173. How neuroscience is rewriting the art of war

174. Are we blinded by our desire to find extraterrestrial life?

175. The ancient origins of partnering and romantic love

176. Seaflooding: How we could engineer the next Mediterranean

177. Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension the same thing as dark energy?

178. Yes, reductionism can explain everything in the whole Universe

179. Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?

180. Lessons from two of the greatest investors of all time

181. Why NASA should go all-in on nuclear propulsion

182. The “intoxication thesis”: The evolutionary benefits of getting drunk

183. Addictions and habits, explained by a neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a journalist

184. The true cost of “solar power at night” with Reflect Orbital

185. 5 horrifying stories that double as lessons in philosophy

186. How to navigate the hidden economics of waiting in line

187. “All That We See or Seem”: A novel by Ken Liu

188. How one key obsession can build and drive a legacy brand

189. Cosmic inflation’s biggest criticisms can’t undermine its success

190. The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news

191. This research team studies gratitude. Here’s what they’ve found.

192. Are young workers canaries in the AI coal mine?

193. How to see shooting stars from Halley’s comet this October

194. Starts With A Bang podcast #122 – Galaxy evolution and JWST

195. Why America’s veneration of the Constitution may ultimately break it

196. The alarm bells are sounding for young men. Will we listen?

197. Ask Ethan: How many generations of stars came before the Sun?

198. Mapped: If America were 100 people, this is what they’d believe

199. If you want to be miserable, then spend your money like this

200. Lawrence Wright: Fiction goes where reporting cannot follow

201. The great AI divide: Europe vs. Silicon Valley

202. 400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn’s rings

203. Jesse Eisenberg: How to rewire your anxiety into authenticity

204. The bias that is holding AI back

205. How humans create reality through language and beliefs

206. Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics

207. Why 95% of AI rollouts fail and what L&D leaders can do about it

208. A fresh take on the Buffett-Munger axis of genius

209. AI vs. AI: The upcoming arms race against disinformation online

210. The China factor in the great progression of the next 25 years

211. The 4 essential ingredients for “new CEO” success

212. The search for alien life must heed this lesson from Stephen King

213. AI adoption rates look weak — but current data hides a bigger story

214. How censorship turns ordinary men into martyrs

215. Why “outrageous optimism” is your startup super-skill

216. COSMOS-Web unveils JWST’s newest gravitational lenses

217. Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma isn’t the event, it’s the response

218. Ask Ethan: How and when will the Universe die?

219. The haunted history of the ghost ship Dash

220. Brian Cox: The bizarre history of black holes

221. The beauty of writing in public

222. What do distant observers see when they look at Earth?

223. The sci-fi hypothesis that explains why you click with certain people

224. How REM sleep unlocks human function

225. Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew

226. Is your office dead? Put BOND on the case

227. 5 great thinkers who rejected their own ideas

228. How Alice Hamilton helped the world see a hidden poison

229. 3 signs your boss is high on “toxic positivity”

230. The “atom” lost its original meaning, and that’s good for science

231. Why liminal spaces are your brain’s secret laboratory

232. So you spend a lot of time alone. Here’s why that’s not a bad thing.

233. Why your AI strategy needs guidance from an 82-year-old computer

234. The 5 biggest mysteries about the origin of our Universe

235. Why the American dream no longer moves upward

236. Ask Ethan: Where are we located relative to the Big Bang?

237. When your father is a magician, what do you believe?

238. David Kipping on how the search for alien life is gaining credibility

239. For the pharaohs, ruling Ancient Egypt meant mastering the Nile

240. Would you rather be an absurdist or an existentialist? Here’s the difference between the two.

241. How to train your nervous system for optimal performance

242. Meet the philosopher outsmarting me since kindergarten

243. Even before the Big Bang, space wasn’t truly empty

244. Experts from 4 different fields define consciousness

245. Are you an effective trailblazer?

246. The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang

247. Why the AI “megasystem problem” needs our attention

248. Why do only humans weep? The evolutionary puzzle of crying.

249. Channel the storytelling genius of Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

250. The Big Bang doesn’t mean what it used to

251. The frontline manager effect: Why some teams thrive while others burn out

252. The case for canceling censorship

253. How to greet the dawn of “future-state predictive intelligence”

254. The “most distant explosion ever” turned out to be rocket debris

255. 5 brilliant books to demystify the brain

256. The 4 hidden forces underneath every argument

257. Ask Ethan: What is the true purpose of scientific peer review?

258. One of the most quoted lines in philosophy is completely misused and misunderstood

259. A postcard from the frontlines of China’s tech boom

260. Your brain: the most important sex organ in the body

261. The deep mathematics of why 10² 11² 12² 13² 14²

262. Biosignatures? Why organics on Mars don’t necessarily signal life

263. Stress is inevitable, but suffering isn’t. 3 experts explain.

264. LIGO’s 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking’s theorem

265. Science’s answer to the ultimate question: Where do we come from?

266. Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: How to handle disruption without hitting an iceberg

267. Neuroscience shows that speed reading is bullshit

268. Why self-understanding is your most valuable leadership asset

269. “Mirror life” and the recurring nightmare of scientific apocalypse

270. How to wait well, according to neuroscience and psychology

271. How to bust the innovation myth

272. Finding organics on Mars means absolutely nothing for life

273. Ask Ethan: Where does cosmic dust come from?

274. Cosmism: The 19th-century movement to reach space and immortality

275. Become stronger: Jumpstart your anti-fragile systems

276. Not since WWII has the fight for liberalism been this urgent

277. Why your attention keeps slipping away (and how to get it back)

278. Inside the mind of a white-collar criminal

279. What AI can never replace

280. 10 incredible facts about the Big Bang Theory

281. Ian McEwan: “Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.”

282. Fearing death keeps us from living. 3 experts explain.

283. One neuroscientist’s deep dive into perception and reality

284. AI will never be a shortcut to wisdom

285. JWST could expose alien biosignatures on hazy exoplanets

286. Centuries before Stephen Hawking, an isolated priest imagined black holes

287. Why your intuition, imagination, and emotion will outlast AI

288. The argument against the existence of a Theory of Everything

289. How to lead by listening: What growing up on MTV taught JoJo Simmons

290. True free speech, explained in 6 minutes

291. JWST improves, surpasses Hubble’s view of Pismis 24

292. Starts With A Bang podcast #121 – Direct exoplanet imaging

293. Richard Reeves: Why working-class men are facing the sharpest decline

294. Ask Ethan: Could “positive geometry” unlock the theory of everything?

295. 5.3 million years ago, the world’s largest flood refilled the Mediterranean

296. Michio Kaku: Why we don’t even rank on the Kardashev scale

297. Inside my study of the world’s oldest companies

298. The Sun is fainter than the Moon, at least in gamma-rays

299. The cold-plunge fallacy: Why some fads may never work for you

300. How our expectations shape what we see, hear, and feel