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We know it couldn't have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
Taking the fourth spot on Big Think's 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
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We frequently say it's 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that's not all that's in the Universe.
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.
Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
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Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
"It's kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk said.
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.
Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it's now or never.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
Improv isn't just an art, it's a business tool.
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A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
Sallie Krawcheck and Bob Kulhan will be talking money, jobs, and how the pandemic will disproportionally affect women's finances.
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Want to get ahead at work? It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it — and adaptability is essential.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
Or you might just be a Leo.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
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