Look out, Tony Stark: Two Baltimore-based companies have teamed up to develop a suit that will allow the truly adventurous to dive to Earth from as high as 100 kilometers up.
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The fog releases into a vault and covers the intruder with invisible artificial DNA. Even if they get rid of their clothes, the DNA stays on the skin for two weeks.
University of Minnesota researchers have built a toy-sized aircraft that moves in response to wireless signals interpreted by an EEG cap.
After almost a century, cancer is still the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S. Why?
Antiquated phrasings don’t make you any more profound than antiquated notions.
Just as business travelers essentially subsidize other travelers by paying the highest rates for commercial airfare, these celebrity boondoggles in space are funding the growth of NewSpace. And all humanity could benefit.
One thing that distinguishes us conservatives from libertarians is that we’re actually worried about growing inequality in America. We’re not that obsessed by the bare fact of economic inequality, but […]
Darwin literally said that many of the social instincts, as he called it, of the animals are represented in our human morality.
Darwin may not have seen that a seemingly altruistic primate can also be quite disastrously aggressive.
Because two thirds of all countries in the world have abolished the death penalty, the majority of executions happen in just five countries—China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, and the United […]
New research suggests that the “green” part of “greenhouse effect” is really working. While having more plants may sound good, it’s still not clear how or whether desert areas will be affected.
This image, courtesy of Reporters Without Borders, rates countries based on the state of freedom of the press.
Writer Kyle Hill does his civic duty by providing some perspective, along with a link to the document containing the exact amounts of insects (and insect parts) the FDA considers acceptable for consumption.
MIT’s Solar System software combines several sources of data to create a map that can predict the annual yield of a panel array installed at a given location.
You can create mental machinery for decision making.
University of Florida researchers have developed a six-inch-long, lightweight vehicle that can fly over, under, and through a hurricane while sending information in real time.
What I advise you to do is to actually go off-piste, and find ways to interact with people outside of your field.
I’ve come up with many business ideas for my startups by attending conferences that are outside my realm.
In an effort to increase the number of riders on public transit, the city is offering $220 off the price of the bikes, which are much easier to carry on and off buses and trains.
A procedure makes eating sollid food so painful that dieters will be forced to stick with a liquid diet.
We need to search for disconfirming evidence to correct mistakes.
Picturing success will increase your optimism and increase your confidence, which will then help you out.
Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes joined us for a Google+ hangout to discuss ideas from her Big Think Mentor workshop of the same name.
The Environmental Defense Fund developed a market-based proposal to reduce the omissions of sulfur dioxide, the cause of acid rain.
Through policy we can make capitalism work for the things that we need to survive as people on this fragile planet that we share.
In about 15 years we’ll be able to indefinitely extend life, says futurist Ray Kurzweil in a special appearance in the electro House musician Steve Aoki’s new video “Singularity.”
Should we move to a Fair Tax or a Flat Tax?
In the last month, two people that I’ve critiqued in this column have replied and created fruitful dialogues. J. Brown, a teacher whom I respect for his intellectual fortitude, just […]
The microbial pendulum is swinging back in the direction of embracing germs, and harvesting ancient wisdom into the mass personalization of microbial harmony.