The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
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Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
Ironically, the company did so using technology perfected by the oil industry.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.
It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.
Big Think covered the 2012 study shortly after it was published. We are now correcting the record.
If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?
If you’ve looked for a job recently, you may have encountered the personality test. You may also have wondered if it was backed by scientific research.
Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023’s show will be magnificent!
While the steep rise of inequality in the United States is well-known, long-run data on the incomes of the richest shows countries have followed a variety of trajectories.
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.
There are two types of missing, or “dark” matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.