Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
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High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
If you’ve looked for a job recently, you may have encountered the personality test. You may also have wondered if it was backed by scientific research.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth’s magnetic field.
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Cam Lawrence — CEO of international venture platform Newlab — joins Big Think Business to discuss his strategic vision for climate tech.
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
Water is vital for life. Luckily for spacefaring humans, the solar system is full of it.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.
The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Russia has long sought to erase the mere idea of Ukraine. But people like my grandmother, born in Druzhkivka, will not let Russia win.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
Great tidal ranges are relatively rare on a global scale — and can be very deadly to the unsuspecting foreshore walker.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
The laws of physics aren’t changing. The Earth is. When it comes to any physical science, we know that the fundamental rules governing how the Universe works remain constant with time. […]
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
Descartes broke from the European philosophers who preceded him and devised a new way of considering humanity and the world.
A prolonged strike could cost the economy between $500 million to $4.5 billion per day.
Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.