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Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
Some of the world’s most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
It’s not enough to nurture star players — the key is to cultivate everyone’s ability to collaborate and bring value.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
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To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
Former President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, unpacks the leadership strategy behind her success.
So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.
AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here’s how some galaxies defy that rule.
Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis
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Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.
Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.
The management of fear is a core leadership skill in today’s globalized world — and the task is not as daunting as you might expect.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.