Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.
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The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?
For billions of years on Earth, life was limited to simple unicellular, non-differentiated organisms. In a mere flash, that changed forever.
Clear communication is good for business and life — but compelling communication can take you to another level.
Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
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The L&D team at PVH Corp., the company behind iconic brands Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, share their journey to personalize learning programs to fit the needs of the learners at their organization.
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
New research from Big Think+ on what scares your future leaders.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
“By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients.”
Statistician Talithia Williams on how math is the clearest path to understanding our existence.
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Back during the hot Big Bang, it wasn’t just charged particles and photons that were created, but also neutrinos. Where are they now?
The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.
Your organization won’t become a “data democracy” organically — shared knowledge is key.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
Humans are among the most altruistic species that we’ve studied, due to our alloparental instincts – a trait we evolved into that allows us to care for offspring who are […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn’t exist.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
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The L&D team at S&P Global discuss how they build a culture of learning at their organization.
On the largest of cosmic scales, the Universe is expanding. But it isn’t all-or-nothing everywhere, as “collapse” is also part of the story.
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
Heart muscle is shaped like a spiral, a mystery that has eluded scientists since 1669. New research has recreated the structure.
Finding meaning isn’t just personally fulfilling — it’s critical to our brain’s development, explains USC neuroscientist.
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