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You might think it’s impossible to run out of wind, but Europe’s “wind drought” proves otherwise. And it’s only going to get worse.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
The James Webb Space Telescope viewed Neptune, our Solar System’s final planet, for the first time. Here’s what we saw, and what it means.
Interventions can make the most difference when Alzheimer’s is detected early.
Every astrobiologist wants to find an alien. But the public should be skeptical when the “aliens” look like tiny humans.
Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece’s brightest minds.
We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
The common drug is called gabapentin, which is currently used to control seizures and manage nerve pain.
We are still new at this.
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
The DART mission tested whether it’s possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?
Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
Cooperation was the first technology.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
If you want to achieve new goals, harness your brain’s ability to change chemically, structurally, and functionally.
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.