If dark energy is causing the Universe to disappear, how can we still find and see ultra-distant stars and galaxies? In the 1920s, scientists discovered that the Universe was expandingbased […]
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A new study has some disturbing implications for rodents who like a nice soda.
Landlords aren’t the ones getting rich off of renting properties; slumlords are.
Some are worried this represents an Orwellian move. At heart, it’s not.
Unfortunately, this means that drivers act more aggressively on the road when spotting cyclists.
The visible light portion of the spectrum is tiny compared to the whole thing. Here’s what we’re missing. When you look at the Milky Way in visible light, you might see […]
The diet claims that people with different blood types process their food differently. Does it pass muster?
The ancient Egyptians worshiped cats as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
A recent Colorado study of ER visits is alarming medical professionals.
Love, grief, and moral disgust aren’t unique to humans. Like chimps, humans sometimes struggle for dominance, but our first impulse is trust and connection. Frans de Waal has spent decades showing that most of what we believe about animals, humans, and the differences between us is wrong.
LIGO and Virgo have now detected a total of 11 binary merger events. But exactly 0 were in the Milky Way. Here’s why. One of the most spectacular recent advances in […]
What gives us color now may give rise to our cyborg future.
How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting.
Monsanto just lost a major court battle to a man who said he developed cancer after using Roundup.
In order to reap the greatest rewards, we have to think big and invest big. One of these four missions will deliver like never before. When it comes to exploring the […]
This may be more common in mammals than we’d thought.
The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.
Chronic procrastination is associated with a slew of negative health outcomes.
Finland’s educational system was driven by a culture that supports a strong social contract, one the United States currently lacks.
Modern notions about the Illuminati are the result of a satirical cult-classic book.
Business, on every level, is becoming more multi-cultural. Whether it’s embracing diversity internally, expanding to multiple sites around the world, or entering distant markets such as China, never has it […]
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
Its emergence will challenge what it means to be human.
Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.
One group of women still seem to benefit from the popular diet.
Two maps show two very different takes on the huge discrepancies in U.S. life expectancy
They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
While there’s plenty to be worried about, it’s important to remember that we’re making progress, too.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn’t exist when you have no evidence either way?
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]