Climate change has brought a disease out of obscurity and into new regions of America, causing a pandemic.
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Super Bowl season illustrates a deep part of who we are, not just as sports fans.
Life may have ended before it had a chance to begin. They’re calling this solution to the Fermi Paradox the Gaian Bottleneck. It’s not that life has never emerged in the universe — it just never had the chance to grow or evolve.
Locate any of the 57 trillion three-by-three-metre squares on Earth with just three words.
Confronting the logic of the “I have nothing to hide” argument.
How the darkest places on the sky unexpectedly house the closest new stars. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will […]
Our ape ancestors might give us insight into the GOP frontrunner’s sustained dominance.
And here’s the reason why, despite all you may have heard. “Thou shalt not embarrass thyself and thy colleagues by claiming false planets.” –Bill Cochran Late last year, one of the […]
Two Rice University students have created “TrumpScript,” a programming language Donald Trump would approve of.
The Universe may be truly infinite, but our understanding of it never will be. Here’s why. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not […]
Scientists are reconsidering the number of planets in our solar system after finding mathematical evidence for a new planet that would orbit the sun every 10,000-20,000 years.
Big Think’s Jason Gots reviews Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel City on Fire.
Free riders choose to reap the rewards of a public good without paying their portion of the cost necessary to produce it.
Science’s picture of the world is being updated. It’s adding algomorphic thinking to its palette.
And if the Universe is expanding, does that mean these ripples can break the speed of light? “Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of […]
Ontological design is way cool.
This is what anonymous browsing looks like.
The Chinese middle class is growing, and its members need a place to live.
It’s not that Astronomy has a “problem” that’s unique; it’s that they’re actually doing something about it. “Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding […]
Stephen Hawking says so.
How the future of astronomy — and something we can’t even see — might open up the dark Universe. This post is written by Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity & […]
This is how the world economy will grow through the year 2024, as predicted by Harvard University’s Center for International Development (CID).
Bringing a whole new meaning to phrase “couch surfing.”
Saying someone is as “pure as snow” has become a sarcastic insult thanks to a team of scientists.
The American Hispanic electorate is growing rapidly, but facts about voting trends among minorities and youths indicate they’re still years away from holding real power.
Nothing fans the flames of nationalism like the sense of historical wrongs as yet “unrighted.”
Last week’s $1.5 billion jackpot was a record that likely will be broken again and again. But when, if ever, should you play? “I’ve done the calculation and your chances of […]
These American artists once challenged the art world with epic land art. Where are today’s troublemakers?
When you remove the content, all that’s left are soothing, colorful boxes.