Love, grief, and moral disgust aren’t unique to humans. Like chimps, humans sometimes struggle for dominance, but our first impulse is trust and connection. Frans de Waal has spent decades showing that most of what we believe about animals, humans, and the differences between us is wrong.
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LIGO and Virgo have now detected a total of 11 binary merger events. But exactly 0 were in the Milky Way. Here’s why. One of the most spectacular recent advances in […]
What gives us color now may give rise to our cyborg future.
How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting.
Monsanto just lost a major court battle to a man who said he developed cancer after using Roundup.
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This may be more common in mammals than we’d thought.
The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.
Chronic procrastination is associated with a slew of negative health outcomes.
Finland’s educational system was driven by a culture that supports a strong social contract, one the United States currently lacks.
Modern notions about the Illuminati are the result of a satirical cult-classic book.
Business, on every level, is becoming more multi-cultural. Whether it’s embracing diversity internally, expanding to multiple sites around the world, or entering distant markets such as China, never has it […]
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
Its emergence will challenge what it means to be human.
Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.
One group of women still seem to benefit from the popular diet.
Two maps show two very different takes on the huge discrepancies in U.S. life expectancy
They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
While there’s plenty to be worried about, it’s important to remember that we’re making progress, too.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn’t exist when you have no evidence either way?
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
The Canadian professor’s old-school message is why many started listening to him.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
The navigation tool has placed a school in the sea, among other things.
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.
If you’re careful enough, you can learn more about the Solar System than you ever imagined. This year, on March 20th, the full Moon will illuminate the night sky. With […]
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh details how the anti-vaxx movement has divided and grown.
So, you want to know about black holes, including how we’re seeing them, what happens when you fall into them, what our future plans for direct and indirect detection are, […]