Stephen Johnson
Managing Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is the Managing Editor of Big Think. Formerly a long-time contributor to Big Think, he is a St. Louis-based writer and editor whose work has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, PBS Digital Studios, Eleven Magazine, and The Missourian.
It was captured by the Parker Solar Probe, which is currently studying the star.
The Geminid meteor shower grows more intense with every year, and it’s expected to be particularly bright in 2018.
The rocket reached an altitude of 51 miles, meeting the Federal Aviation Administration’s definition of space.
The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
“Didn’t you see me Googling ‘baby not moving?'” Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.
One cardinal is accused of covering up sexual abuse. The other faces criminal charges in Australia.
That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.
The bold technique involves surgically implanting a so-called microneedle patch directly onto the heart.
Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.
Secretary-General António Guterres said corruption is “an assault on the values of the United Nations.”
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.
On Friday, NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured and transmitted historic audio from the red planet.
Altria Group Inc., maker of Marlboro cigarettes, said it’s taking a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group, a major Canadian medical and recreational marijuana provider.
The project involves a high-altitude balloon, tons of tiny particles and knowledge gained from a violent volcano eruption in 1991.
Walgreens now competes with Amazon and CVS in the race to dominate the prescription delivery market.
Russia has launched several so-called “inspector satellites” that could potentially be weaponized.
Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 agreement unless Russia falls back into compliance.
Deceased donations could greatly improve fertility treatments for women with uterine problems.
Drug use and arrests are rising overall, but those changes vary depending on the state.
The controversial scientist He Jiankui is currently missing after causing major controversy in late November.
Mothers who tested positive for chemicals found in common cosmetic products were more likely to have girls who hit puberty early.
It was “one of the most complex and intricate endeavors” SpaceX has ever undertaken.
Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.”
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.
Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.
A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald’s restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
The particles are able to travel deep into tissue in ways that other treatments simply can’t.