The Ghazipur dump keeps growing and growing every year, catching fire and leaching toxins into the ground. What can be done about it?
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Are we witnessing evolution in real time?
“Just tell me what you want me to do, and I’ll do it.” In her Big Think+ video, “Empower Your People — Conversational Moves for Engaging Your Team in Creative […]
Among women, bisexuality is statistically on the rise.
Dark matter’s naysayers latched onto one tiny puzzle. This new find may have solved it completely. Imagine the largest cosmic smashup you can. Take the largest gravitationally bound structures we […]
Experts say two emerging meat alternatives will challenge the conventional meat industry.
A surprise on the far side of the Moon.
It’s the secret ingredient that makes cooperation—and civilization—possible.
A new study in Spain displays the powerful effects of empathy.
There aren’t any holes in the Universe at all. What actually exists is far more interesting. Somewhere, far away, if you believe what you read, there’s a hole in the […]
How can a misfolded protein be behind some of the strangest and deadliest diseases out there?
Stop prescribing advice and start helping people come up with their own solutions.
The report comes amid calls for antitrust investigations into big tech.
How does the largest welfare program imaginable have libertarian supporters?
Should you find yourself speaking to a group of people and not connecting, you’re stuck in a situation that seemingly benefits no one. For some people it seems to come […]
Surrounding counties boast even higher increases.
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.
If we don’t push the frontiers of physics, we’ll never learn what lies beyond our current understanding. At a fundamental level, what is our Universe made of? This question has […]
Who would prefer a 30-hour work week? A lot of people, it turns out.
Cranston won his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network.
Research finds that only 10% of cities worldwide are affordable.
New experiments look to the interplay between neutrons and magnetic fields to observe our universal reflection.
Nematodes demonstrate that neurons can influence offspring’s genetics.
Average waiting time for hitchhikers in Ireland: Less than 30 minutes. In southern Spain: More than 90 minutes.
If we could see in three dimensions instead of two, we’d never have thought otherwise. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, discovered in […]
Just when you thought the student loan crisis couldn’t get any worse.