The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
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The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
A growing body of research shows that religious people seem to enjoy more psychological well-being compared to others.
The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
When you view your right hand in a mirror, it appears as a left hand. Writing is reversed, as is the direction of any spinning object: clockwise becomes counterclockwise and […]
Easily distracted? Try a “distractibility delay.”
It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
New research suggests they may be in the connections between your brain cells.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
“Strategic ambiguity” has long been the West’s strategy on Taiwan.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what’s real. That’s not what he said.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.