A Dutch designer wants to take the elements that make jellyfish glow and apply them to trees. Daan Roosegaarde envisions trees serving as streetlights one day. With the help of […]
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It’s Sunday night, and time for everyone’s favorite new show, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.” While we enjoy watching Neil deGrasse Tyson successfully fill Carl Sagan’s shoes, it’s nice to go […]
“You can’t tell Marie Curie that she can’t do something,” says Hank Green, host of the SciShow. The first woman to receive world renown in science, Curie was the first […]
Barbara McClintock not only inspired a reclusive character in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot, she also advanced the study of genetics. McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology in […]
Spring is almost here. And with the warmer weather comes dimmer full moons. MinutePhysics explains. Image credit: Doug888888/Flickr
When we think of the word “evolution,” we often think of “survival of the fittest” or “natural selection.” Evolution simply means change over time. And it can be applied to […]
Nicknamed “Heart” and “Soul,” these two bright emission nebulas could be considered the heart and soul of our galaxy. Located in Cassiopeia, the nebulas shine brightly thanks to the red […]
The spiral galaxy NGC 2683 is very similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy, according to NASA. Located 20 million light-years from the northern constellation of the Cat, it was […]
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie
“All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.” – Malala Yousafzai
It’s the weekend, and time to catch-up on sleep. What if you refused to sleep-in late and decided to forgo sleep all together? You may be more productive–at first. But […]
Is the largest object in our galaxy — our central black hole — poised to devour a massive gas cloud? “What makes us love… is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination […]
Watch out Google Glass. Pocket Drones may be the hot accessory of the near-future. AirDroids just raised $929,212 on Kickstarter, a fundraiser which included over 2,000 pre-orders for the personal […]
It’s March 14th! Happy 3.14159265359 Day! Are you celebrating by baking a “pi”? Mashable marked the day with a round-up of delicious pie recipes. Pi Day began 26 years ago […]
Is the “invisible hand” always benign? Or can it be bad? Free-market fans love the idea that “spontaneous order” emerges from local decisions. But what prevents “spontaneous disorder”? Does prudence […]
The polar ring galaxy may actually be two galaxies that are gravitationally pulled together. When this happens, an unusual ring of gas and stars rotate around the poles of what […]
“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.” -Galileo
Every two years the American contemporary art world converges on The Whitney Museum in New York City. And biennially the Whitney Biennial inspires the whole gamut of critical reactions from […]
We’ve covered the potential for mind-reading before here on Big Think. The technology sounds exciting, but it also brings up terrifying ethical issues. To quote Neil deGrasse Tyson, “we’re moving […]
If there was ever any dispute that Carl Sagan wasn’t “only” an astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist but a poet, this video solves it. Sagan receives the “auto-tunes” treatment in this […]
The Internet turned 25 yesterday. Business Insider celebrated by publishing this chart today showing how the world wide web has grown since its “modest” start.The web began all thanks to […]
As technology evolves, so do the sounds that we associate with our favorite gadgets. It’s difficult to recall the ring of one’s first cell phone. But some of these noises–like […]
This March 14th, stump your friends with these amazing facts about the world’s favorite transcendental number! “So here we have π squared, which an engineer would call ‘10.’” –Frank King […]
Hamilton Nolan, a Gawker writer I greatly respect but who I’ve disagreed with before, has a new post up regarding using Tweets publicly. I here want to respond to one […]
Around 25 million light-years from the constellation Canes Venatici in the northern sky, the Sunflower Galaxy clearly deserves its nickname. The flower-looking bright spiral galaxy is nearly 100,000 light-years across, […]
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
Living a creative life takes creativity nurturing and intuitive awareness boosting. By having the right external environment and internal tools for flourishing creativity, you not only notice differences in creative […]
Every element found on Earth was made in either the Big Bang or the cores of stars… except these three. “We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things […]
Alan Lightman on whether our universe may be an accident.
On the 60th anniversary of its publication, Lord of the Flies continues to be a valuable literary and cultural reference point and, more surprisingly, an instructive manual about contemporary political life—and its liabilities.