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The best autonomous car may be one you don’t even need to own.
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
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If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
In 1924, Edwin Hubble found proof that the Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy in the Universe.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
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NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller is coming back to Big Think’s studio soon to answer YOUR questions! Here’s all you need to know to submit your science-related inquiries.
Inflation, dark matter, and string theory are all proposed extensions to the prior consensus picture. But what does the evidence say?
The Universe is expanding, and individual, bound structures are all receding away from one another. How, then, are galaxies still colliding?
Ideal models of family life have been broken by societal, technological, and cultural shifts — and we need to rethink our options.
On-demand learning has become the cornerstone of a modern L&D strategy. Here’s why.
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here’s how protons and neutrons arose.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
The Big Bang is commonly misunderstood, warping our understanding about the Universe’s size and shape.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
In paint form, the world’s “whitest white” reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.
Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.
Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.
A company in England has made a test that picks out the compounds from breath that reveal if people have liver disease.
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists’ and observers’ estimates are too low.
Take it from teamwork gurus behind Apple and Star Wars — a new kind of psychological incubator will allow your creativity to flourish.