Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
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Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.
Neuroscience research suggests it might be time to rethink our ideas about when exactly a child becomes an adult.
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
The U.S. has the world’s largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan’s is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
“I need to think about the future. Will you help me?”
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
You can love a romantic partner, but also a pet, a book, God, or the sound of someone’s voice. We need many more words for love.
MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
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Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.