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“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet.”

If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?

Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?

The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.

Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.

Find it easier to sort out your friends’ problems than your own? This paradox is for you.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.

By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.

With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.

GLP-1 agonists may be able to treat addiction, prevent Alzheimer’s, and more.

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

The body uses its own electricity to repair wounds. Faster healing may be possible with additional electrical stimulation.

The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Are there any advantages to looking so cumbersome?

Cooperation was the first technology.

Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.

Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.

Why would the Earth suddenly start vomiting forth huge quantities of mud?

Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.

Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.

From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.

This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.

A clear alternative has yet to emerge.

The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here’s what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.