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At four million solar masses, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?
The raw ingredients just weren’t there. Thankfully, their predecessors were. Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically […]
It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
If more people decide to apply pressure through their choices, slowly but surely we would reach climate change herd immunity.
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
The risk of dying basically flattens after age 110.
Anti-human business practices deteriorate their charges, and there’s perhaps no greater warning of this end result than the life of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867 with […]
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”
A virtuous diet isn’t strictly vegan.
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.
Science is an ongoing flirtation with the unknown.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
At first blush, the damages done by sexual harassment seem obvious. Make that incredibly obvious. Such behavior exposes our organizations to legal consequences and the subsequent financial fallout. And in […]
Psychedelics have been shown to help reduce depression. This study may show us why.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
From “mutilated males” to “wandering wombs,” dodgy science affects how we view the female body still today.
Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.