Hard Science

The origin and phylogeny of the Yaravirus are not yet clear.

Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.

Goodnight, sweet Spitzer.

The spacecraft is set to come closer to the star than any other Sun-facing camera before it.

Got $55 million lying around? If so, you might be able to score a spot aboard the International Space Station starting 2024.

Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.

The outer edges of a black hole might be “fuzzy” instead of neat and smooth.

The intelligent life we are searching for doesn’t have to be humanoid.

The TRUTHS mission aims to collect extremely precise data on how much radiation Earth absorbs and reflects.

Is information the fifth form of matter?

Hundreds more are documented in Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks.

New study figures out how stars produce gamma ray bursts.

From talking about Schrödinger’s cat to nuking the South Pole, this decades-old interview shows why Kaku was born to be a science educator.

Not so indestructible after all.

A Mars Space Flight team member warns that people need to be prepared for what’s coming.

Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.

In 2017, researchers believed they had found evidence for the elusive Majorana fermion. Now, a new study found that the exotic class of particles may still be confined to theory.

These needles in the vast galactic haystack take more effort to find, but they help piece together our origins.

Researchers call this “intergenerational reciprocity.”

An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.

An ongoing experiment aboard the International Space Station aims to find out more about the fundamentals of combustion.

The Mars 2020 rover is set to launch in July of the same year, setting the stage for years and years of science on the Red Planet.

A head built for meat-eating.

We have arrived: Big Think’s most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.

The idea of ‘absolute time’ is an illusion. Physics and subjective experience reveal why.

Russian astrophysicists propose the Casimir Effect causes the universe’s expansion to accelerate.

Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.

Princeton scientists find a new way to control nuclear fusion reactions.

The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn’t true.

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