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The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.

“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”

We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.

It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.

Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.

A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.

Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.

Manipulating a signaling pathway in mice reversed their anxiety — and offers hope for a new class of anti-anxiety medications for humans.

Leap day only comes once every four years, including in 2024. But the reason we have it, including when we do and don’t, may surprise you.

How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.

Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out we could live in it for a while — if it was big enough.

Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.

It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.

How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.

Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.

For well over a century, engineers have proposed harnessing the ocean’s tides for energy. But the idea hasn’t seemed to register in many places.

With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.

One day, this powerful tool could be in millions of smartphones.

“Fasting…should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while.”

Oliver Burkeman — author of “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” — tells Big Think about modern life lessons from a 6th-century monk.

“They decreased their drinking to the point that it was so low we didn’t record a blood-alcohol level.”

We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?

When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.

Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.

It could prevent sun damage and help chemical burns heal faster.

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making “boulders” out of “pebbles.”

When is a rabbit not a rabbit? When it’s a thought experiment designed to reveal the tricky tango of language and concepts.

You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.

It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.

Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.