An unexpectedly revealing find in Mongolia solves a longstanding riddle.
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As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper. Whenever you set out to solve a problem, there are a series of steps you have to take in order […]
“Brasilia, the biggest paper town ever.”
Can Impossible Foods beat other brands — like Beyond Meat and Tyson — in the war to dominate the alternative meat industry?
The move comes one day before more than 1,500 Amazon employees are set to walk off the job as part of the global climate strikes.
Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.
With little progress on other avenues to preventing mass shootings, one firm has employed architecture to save students.
The line-in-the-sand was drawn in sharpie, and the time to declare ‘no more’ is now. When you have a question about the physical world, there are a lot of different approaches […]
Duke University psychiatrist Harold Koenig describes how.
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Objects coming into our solar system have an origins story to tell.
We have a new range of skills coming to Big Think+ this week, including communication, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.
A new research article states that the obesity epidemic is affecting more than just waistlines.
Forget Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Pilot Waves and all the others. What you’re left with is reality. When it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with […]
Some pesticides are about as toxic as table salt.
After China stopped accepting recylables, California was put in a tough place.
Some critics say the move is designed to shield those who profited from the dangerous drug.
The choice of flavor may be up to you, but the number of scoops will depend on your friends.
Employees from Amazon and Microsoft plan to join the global protest, too.
Most of us have heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs, but Maslow doesn’t have a monopoly on self-actualization.
Most elderly individuals’ brains degrade over time, but some match — or even outperform — younger individuals on cognitive tests.
What’s more massive than the heaviest known neutron star but lighter than the lightest known black hole? LIGO may be about to solve that mystery. Whenever a star is born in […]
So much for rest in peace.
Two recent polls underscore Americans’ shifting attitudes on climate change.
Unhealthy diets cause the part of your brain responsible for appetite to become inflamed, encouraging further eating and obesity.
The system could help with diagnosing and treating patients that cannot communicate.
A question that’s baffled physicists for nine years has been resolved by the simplest possible answer.
The question is, how can we make employment fair for everyone?