Paul Ratner
Contributing Writer
Paul is a writer, filmmaker, and educator. He has written for years for Big Think and other outlets on transformative scientific research, history, and current events. His award-winning films like the true-life adventure "Moses on the Mesa" and the science documentary "The Caveman of Atomic City" have played at film festivals around the world. Paul also organizes numerous unique educational events, renowned film festivals, and competitions for thousands of people. He has degrees from Cornell University (BA) and Chapman University (MFA). You can follow Paul's work at paulratnerimagines.com, on Instagram, and Facebook.
A meteorite that smashed into a frozen lake in Michigan may explain the origins of life on Earth, finds study.
Researchers find a key clue to the evolution of bony fish and tetrapods.
Nazi supporters held huge rallies and summer camps for kids throughout the United States in the 1930s.
Younger Americans support expanding the Supreme Court and serious political reforms, says new poll.
Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.
Researchers found a common element in the destruction of even the most powerful empires.
New research explains why the Moon’s crust is magnetized by debunking one long-standing theory.
Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.
A supernova exploded near Earth about 2.5 million years ago, possibly causing an extinction event.
Physicists create quantum entanglement, making two distant objects behave as one.
Researchers detect a large lake and several ponds deep under the ice of the Martian South Pole.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
Breakthrough technology uses multiplexing entanglement to make an ultra-secure quantum internet.
A new study used artificial intelligence to analyze relationship data from thousands of couples.
Astronomers propose a new location for the mysterious force that accelerates the universe.
A new study shows bacteria could survive travel from Earth to Mars.
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
A new study discovers how blazars shoot out jets of radiation towards Earth.
Researchers figure out the function of mysterious heart structures first described by da Vinci.
A new study sheds light on the final supernovae of the Universe.
President Vladimir Putin announces approval of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine but scientists warn it may be unsafe.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic teams up with Rolls Royce to create a new Mach 3 supersonic aircraft.
America’s Space Force has acquired a horse for an important mission.
Researchers find an unusual property of a bacteria that can breathe in metal.
Researchers discover how to use light instead of electricity to advance artificial intelligence.
A new study shows white dwarf stars create an essential component of life.
A new study looks at what would happen to human language on a long journey to other star systems.