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The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
Galaxies can die if their star-making stuff is lost. But now it can find its way back.
Oxygen is thought to be a biomarker for extraterrestrial life, but there are at least three different ways that a lifeless planet can produce it.
After it became clear that the world wasn’t 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.
Researchers discover how to use light instead of electricity to advance artificial intelligence.
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
The observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve it?
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Binary pulsars are doing what no other measurement has done: measure our galactic acceleration directly. Even though the majority of the matter that makes up our Universe may be completely […]
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
We have to use the right definition for the specific question we’re asking. When it comes to the Universe, we frequently characterize objects by examining and reporting on their physical […]
Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.