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Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.
Jupiter’s mysterious auroral events are caused by vibrating waves of plasma.
One of the 20th century’s most famous, influential, and successful physicists is lauded the world over. But Feynman is no hero to me.
The same technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines may enable the first damage-reversing heart attack cure.
Could we all attain this superpower?
Today, the deepest depths of intergalactic space aren’t at absolute zero, but at a chill 2.73 K. How does that temperature change over time?
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
This flying car — more properly called an “electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle”
— will seat five and fly up to 135 mph.
From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries.
“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
Should men be doing kegels?
A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
Zuranolone might help people feel better sooner than if they were relying on standard treatment alone.
Only 1% of corn grown is the U.S. is the type that people eat.
An effect called the “urban heat island” means that temperatures are often 10 degrees higher in cities, according to NASA.
They could also “turn off” their fear.
The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
Claims of a “loneliness epidemic” aren’t based on robust data. Loneliness might be a problem, but it’s not worse than it was in the past.
Delaying or refusing vaccines for non-medical reasons is literally a killer choice. When it comes to issues at the intersection of science and society, there are all sorts of things that […]
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.