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The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the “standard” American diet.
If this discovery came in a pre-LIGO era, maybe it would have been a surprise. But in 2019, there’s no mystery at all. Did you hear that astronomers had recently […]
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Consciousness expert Michael Graziano on what, if anything, makes us uniquely human.
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Our Sun will someday run out of fuel. Here’s what it will look like when that happens. The fate of our Sun is unambiguous, determined solely by its mass. If all […]
You might say members of the Intellectual Dark Web don’t fit in. They might say, “exactly.”
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First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.
Canadians who’ve been caught with 30 grams of marijuana or less will soon be able to request those charges to be expunged.
The visible light portion of the spectrum is tiny compared to the whole thing. Here’s what we’re missing. When you look at the Milky Way in visible light, you might see […]
It doesn’t matter what’s popular, logical, or intuitive. What matters is what you can observe and measure. Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would […]
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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The other great spiral galaxy in the local group demonstrates why we’re #2, even in our own backyard. The Milky Way is our cosmic home, containing hundreds of billions of […]
The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
Americans lost $116.9 billion gambling in 2016.
From newborn planets to entire galaxies, we’re seeing the Universe as never before. The idea of a modern telescope is simple: collect light from a distant object, at high resolution, and […]
Good quotes are powerful catalysts for positive actions.
We know a lot about what else is out there, but we still don’t know everything. In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at […]
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can’t be wrong.
It’s safe to say not everyone was immediately impressed.
“Hothouse Earth” is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm…
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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There’s no such thing as a theory that’s too beautiful to be wrong, if it doesn’t agree with experiment. The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you’ve […]
If everything in nature is made of quantum fields at its core, how do we wind up with particles at all? What is our Universe made out of? At a fundamental […]