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Researchers believe that the practice of sleeping through the whole night didn’t really take hold until just a few hundred years ago.
Maybe the only chance they have to tell their story before they’re gone.
People who occasionally pull all-nighters are at greater risk for diabetes and other illnesses, and a new study identifies blood proteins as being behind the problem.
The scandalous history of the Billboard Hot 100 is the perfect analogy for how Donald Trump’s popularity broke the rigid power structure of American politics.
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The Galapagos Islands are among the most fascinating places on Earth. Their uniqueness has inspired science to make many important discoveries there.
Chris Hughes earned nearly half a billion dollars after co-founding Facebook. Now he’s arguing for fairer wages in the form of a $500 monthly ‘social dividend’ for low- and middle-class Americans.
The European Commission is about to pass some laws regulating the future of the Internet. Here’s how to make sure these laws are fair and just.
A new study suggests using “rough scheduling” for leisure activities to avoid making even fun feel like work.
Propofol does more than knock a patient out — it blocks neural connections.
Billions of years ago, the Milky Way would have been unrecognizable. Here’s how it took its modern shape. The Milky Way galaxy may be just one of trillions in the observable […]
These seven presidents had a window into the future—or were really good guessers.
What are the health and environmental effects of electric night light?
The GoFly challenge has just announced 10 winning flying-car designs. It’s the first phase of a three-part contest, and they’re very cool.
New research on the hypothalamus shows that body heat matters.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]
Terrorism. Technological disruption. Globalization. Life in the 1870’s was wild. Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff on Joseph Conrad, his times, and ours.
Have you ever eaten a chocolate bar that was worth its weight in gold? If you lived in ancient Mesoamerica, you might have done it every day.
A new study has found a mechanism that links poor sleep with deterioration of brain function.
From a developmental perspective, lying in young children is rarely cause for concern. In fact, lying is often one of the first signs a young child has developed a “theory of mind.”
Computer art does not rival human art. Rather, art created by artificial intelligence is at once a compliment to the human brain, and a corollary to the achievements of oil paintings and classical music.
Finding Opportunity Where Others Think It’s Impossible In this video for Big Think+, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, talks about how opportunity isn’t based on “disruption for […]
In recent months, Russian ships have been spotted near the underwater cables that enable telecommunications service between North America and overseas nations.
America’s fear of an Anglo-Japanese alliance led Canada to worry about a U.S. attack—and in the end, devise a scheme for a ‘pre-emptive invasion’ of its southern neighbor.
VR technology shows no signs of slowing down. We need to start asking the question of how we deal with those of us who become addicted to the wonders VR offers.
Blockchain technology could help alleviate the struggles of asylum seekers who are many times left in the wake of political fights.
These chemicals are also widely used in products like clothing, shoes, wrappers and furniture, to make them more stain-resistant, waterproof and/or nonstick.
After generations of speculations, we’ve finally got the images that tell us the full story. Some 4.5 billion years ago, our Sun and Solar System were born from a collapsing cloud […]
Although there are many advantages, it could be problematic for one particular group of people.
Exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity. A look at historically specific theories of exhaustion shows a tendency to look back nostalgically to a supposedly simpler time.