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While Y chromosome loss was first observed in 1963, it was not until 2014 that researchers found the link to a shorter life span.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
Your subjective experience might not end the moment your heart stops, research on near-death experiences suggests.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
Calculating training ROI is rarely straightforward, but this article offers a few best practices for L&D professionals.
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
A large study concludes that people who grew up in rural areas are superior at navigation, likely because cities tend to be less complex.
The author of classics like “A Farewell to Arms” and “The Sun Also Rises” is known and loved for his simple yet effective writing style. Here’s how to imitate it.
Regret isn’t just unpleasant, it’s unhealthy.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
Historians know how military technologies evolved, but the reasons why remain poorly understood.
The theory is accurate within at least one part in a quadrillion.
The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.
In general, 5G is not a threat to human health or activities, but there are some legitimate questions about interference with airplane instruments.
Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]
Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.