The Latest from Big Think

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Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What's the root cause of this Hubble tension?
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We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.
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Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
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Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that's 10 with 30 zeros after it.
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The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
Are fools happy and geniuses disorganized — or is that a mistaken stereotype?
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As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
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LK-99, almost certainly, isn't a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.
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A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
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The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
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The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we've probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
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You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
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It could explain why so many people don’t respond to common antidepressants.