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Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?

Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.

Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.

The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.

When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.

Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.

How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.

There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.

Even in the very early Universe, there were heavy, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. How did they get so big so fast?

Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.

If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?

Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.

Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.

For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.

AI software is rapidly accelerating chip design, potentially leveling up the speed of innovation across the economy.

In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.

Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.

A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here’s why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.

In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.

A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.

Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.

The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.

Travel half the distance to your destination, and there’s always another half to go. Despite Zeno’s Paradox, you always arrive right on time.