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A recent study shows that non-believers are more tolerant of Islam than Christians and other groups.
1604 is the last time a human saw one with their naked eyes, but that wasn’t the most recent one at all. “When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough […]
Scientists in Australia have just discovered a link between dark chocolate and mood. And all they had to do was feed people chocolate for a month.
If Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice made you mad, maybe you’re part of the modern nerd culture Batman began.
If life is indeed a virus, then tardigrades are very likely the vector.
Geology rocks! “Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.” –Jane Porter There are plenty of people out there who’ll give you a rundown of what your birthstone […]
Steven Kotler explains what happens in your brain at aha moments.
High-wire artists Phillippe Petit says mistakes are our very best teachers.
A recent Pew Research Study finds women to be the more religious gender worldwide.
How colliding galaxy clusters emit the most spectacular fireworks, if only you look beyond what your eyes can see! “Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. […]
Researchers have been saying they are close for decades. This time however, it’s different.
Psychedelic mushrooms may be the explanation to how the human neocortex experienced a dramatic evolutionary change from early hominids to homo sapiens.
Thanks to the generous contributions of our Patreon supporters (which includes many of you), Starts With A Bang has now been creating free-to-listen-and-download podcasts for the past six months, including […]
The name of our country reflects a legacy of blood-soaked European colonialism and other historical ills. To get a fresh start, we should rebrand America by renaming it.
If they shoot out straight lines of high-energy particles, why do they carve bubble-like shapes? “When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up […]
Scientists have just discovered that newts regrow limbs differently as adults than as babies – which could finally pave the way for limb regeneration in humans.
Elon Musk is confident that the electric car’s future is solar-powered.
How did immigration policy and a lack of integration help cause the Brussels attack?
As songwriters, The Beatles had a special trick for making lyrics resonate: They leveraged the power of personal pronouns to connect with listeners.
Everything else has a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. But get a smaller and smaller galaxy, and dark matter skyrockets! “For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS […]
The Achilles heel of AI is an inability to discriminate between sources of knowledge that are trustworthy and those that are deceitful and manipulative.
Religious talk has been eerily quiet in the GOP race. But that doesn’t mean it’s absent.
As Twitter celebrates its tenth anniversary, we look back at how it’s changed the world for the better. HINT: All of that world-changing goodness comes straight from its users.
We heard the news today, 46 years ago, that the Beatles were no more. But who was the real killer in the magical mystery tour of the Fab Four’s finale?
It’s said to be the majority of matter in the Universe, but how sure are we of that? “For the moment we might very well call them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown […]
Respectability politics makes us comfortable. It hoists us up on our high horses, and takes away our responsibility for the way we treat other people. It puts the burden on the marginalized person to adjust their appearance or behavior to earn respect from the majority.
Ex-POWs told researchers about some amazing new mental skills they’d acquired in solitary.
A ninth planet does not only exist, but it causes comets to rain upon Earth, creating extinction events, says astrophysicist.
The skull of a “Siberian unicorn” (Elasmotherium sibiricum) was found in the Pavlodar Priirtysh Region of Kazakhstan. A study from the American Journal of Applied Science believes this could proved evidence to show the creature roamed the Earth longer than previously thought.