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A study finds that baby mammals dream about the world they are about to experience to prepare their senses.
A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.
They believe in meritocracy, yet leave their kids massive wealth.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
Dreams are weird. According to a new theory, that’s what makes them useful.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
The concept of the warp drive is currently at odds with everything we know to be true about physics.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
A new theory suggests that dreams’ illogical logic has an important purpose.
It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.
Big Think recently spoke with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about the surprising consequences of forgoing sleep.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
How the brain decides what to store and what to forget.
Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series helped inspire the field of social physics, which uses math to understand crowd behavior.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Neuroscience explains terrifying ordeals, from out-of-body experiences to alien abductions.