It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
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All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
What the hell is “re-engineering business value creation systems” anyway?
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions.
A golden new era of business is within our reach — provided that we harness AI’s potential while mitigating the risks.
This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.
33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question “Is life computable?”
Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these “outliers” might be the most common type of planet overall.
“Gyroscope-on-a-chip” technology could soon enable us to navigate over long distances without GPS.
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
How do scientists measure and define life in the natural world? Dr. Lee Cronin gives us a definition, in 4 minutes:
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Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.
These 5 human development principles could completely change the way we think about learning and potential.
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The promising new treatment builds on research that went into developing COVID vaccines.
Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.
An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
Just 165,000 light-years away, the Large Magellanic Cloud is suspected to house a supermassive black hole. At last, evidence has arrived.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
Since mid-2022, JWST has been showing us how the Universe grows up, from planets to galaxies and more. So, what’s its biggest find of all?
Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.
Featuring SpaceX’s “Mechazilla,” a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.