July 16, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the mission that first landed a man on the Moon.
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Steve Wozniak doesn’t know if his phone is listening, but he’s minimizing risks.
Bats are being subjected to a deadly plague that may be threatening their existence. However, a new bacterial spray may help fight the fungus responsible.
Not only can’t astronomers and planetary scientists agree, but the IAU made it worse for everyone. If you were alive in 2006, you likely remember a momentous event in astronomy: […]
Jokesters and serious Area 51 raiders would be met with military force.
Strangely, the sun showed no sunspots at the time the photo was taken.
She may not be ours forever.
The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.
“It is almost impossible to put into words the difference that Alan Turing made to society.”
He says his company would survive even if Instagram disappeared tomorrow.
When stars get ejected from galaxies within massive clusters, they go where the dark matter is. Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe, displaying its effects in […]
MIT and Google researchers use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.
Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.
The university will also offer partial financial aid to middle-income students.
New research compares the roles and political clout of royal women in eight societies spanning five continents and more than 4,000 years.
Studies on stress and memory have often given conflicting results.
“We live in an age in which there is too much excessive information, less knowledge, and very, very little wisdom.” Elif Shafak has faced trial and investigation in her native Turkey for giving voice to the voiceless in her novels. We talk about her book THREE DAUGHTERS OF EVE and the fight for nuance in a world of binaries.
General Relativity has nothing to do with light or electromagnetism at all. So how to gravitational waves know to travel at the speed of light? There are two fundamental classes of […]
We’re too afraid to voice our complaints, and for good reason — it often doesn’t go well.
Study finds that carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences.
Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
Meet Deinococcus radioduranst, the world’s toughest bacteria.
What will it take to conquer our immemorial space dream?
The Portal promises to be a deep dive into the possible.
A new study found a positive association between sugary drinks and cancer.
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
Recently, Tron appears to have been at the center of the latest fake news scandal to hit the crypto world. It started on July 8, after Twitter user Hayden Otto […]