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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 […]
We don’t perceive time in an objective fashion; instead, the brain interprets time in a complex and amorphous way.
Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.
The laws of physics are not time-reversal invariant. Here’s how we know. No matter when, where, or what you are in the Universe, you experience time in only one direction: forwards. […]
A new study lays out a green (very green), data-driven plan to capture much of our atmosphere’s carbon pool.
The museum’s important call to document future history.
The global financial system is under an increasing amount of pressure to get with the times and evolve to the needs of its customers. Crises like the 2008 housing bubble’s […]