Even with the greatest telescopes imaginable, there are billions of light years with nothing recognizable by today’s standards. “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory […]
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You know what a black hole is, and we’ve found a few so far. But oh, are there ever so many more out there! “Black holes are the seductive dragons of […]
A ban on fast food would save multitudes more than the travel ban ever could.
Cross ‘multi-tasking ninja’ off your resume, it’s out, say Stanford researchers and other cognitive experts. Here are three tips for transitioning back to single-tasking.
And it doesn’t mean we should give up, but it does mean we’ve got a lot of work to do! “‘Star Trek’ says that it has not all happened, it has […]
Elon Musk wants to put 1 million people on Mars in 40 years. The internet had questions. Here are his answers.
Faces convey many important signals, but our ability to perceive the measured intelligence (IQ) of another person is contingent on the gender of the subject.
When a quantum interaction happens, one interpretation leads to an infinite number of parallel Universes. Here’s how that could be true. “As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with […]
Through an incredible anecdote, Earl Lewis demonstrates why STEM can’t do it alone. Scientists and humanists needs each other, and institutions have a responsibility to continue to fund and nurture the humanities.
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Manu Prakash is one of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2016 Fellows, and here’s why.
Researchers not only looked at biological evidence but contextual factors as well.
China’s new satellite is going to attempt to create uncrackable encryption using quantum mechanics.
People who believe in God or the supernatural don’t quite understand the physical world, claims a new study from researchers at the University of Helsinki.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, James Gleick, author of Time Travel – a History, talks with host Jason Gots about why we’re so obsessed with something that’s evidently impossible.
The UK government is discussing legislation that would require all internet service providers to block websites with “adult content”, specifically those without age verification.
Physicists are investigating the long-term data storage properties of diamonds.
Prediction is reinventing industries and running the world. More and more, predictive analytics drives commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and law enforcement.
Earth is pretty much the limit of how large you can get and still be rocky. Anything much larger, and you’re a gas giant. “How vast those Orbs must be, and […]
An upcoming, massive “atlas of the underworld” will allow geologists to rewind geologic time.
Can we work out what ingredients could make “free will” work? Here’s a map of some of the steps it would need.
Given all the animals that have gone extinct during Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, Bill Nye would venture back to the 1700s to revive a lovable lost sea animal then living off the coast of Alaska.
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Edward Snowden and his allies are lobbying President Obama to pardon him.
“My Experience is What I Agree to Pay Attention to,” said psychologist William James. And therein lies the problem and danger of advertising: we don’t always agree or choose to pay attention, but it shapes our life experience irrevocably.
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The troubling ReAnima clinical trials in India have just been blocked.
Before you even look through your telescope, you need to know where to begin. “If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control […]
Most of us have heard of the double helix. But quadruple helix DNA?
The Big Bang’s leftover glow tells us a lot more than just where we came from. “Cosmology is the study of the origin, evolution, and fate of objects in the observable […]
New Here One earbuds aim to bring enhanced human hearing to market.
This could open allow for the exploration of nearby exoplanets, solar systems, and other parts of the galaxy.
Neuroscientists now think of the gut as a “second brain”; it independently controls your digestive processes and is in constant conversation with your main brain. What do they talk about? Depression, theorizes Dr Emeran Mayer.
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