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There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.

Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.

Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.

Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with “an unnatural ghastly glow”? One inventor thought you would.

The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.

New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.

Research shows how “dark” Brett Martinpersonality traits affect Bitcoin enthusiasm.

In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.

It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

The idea of black holes has been around for over 200 years. Today, we’re seeing them in previously unimaginable ways.

The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.

Diplomacy is war by other means.

Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It’s often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.

The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a “reality threshold” that is lower than it should be.

From Ramses II to Alexander the Great, these leaders helped shaped the world we know today.

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.

A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.

The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.

Throughout history, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of people have been spontaneously compelled to dance until collapsing or dying from exhaustion. What explains this bizarre phenomenon?

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.

How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.

Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.

Frustrating failures sometimes lead to great breakthroughs.

Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.

Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.

Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.

By looking back at future dreams we can see our current hopes and visions in a whole new light.

Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.