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The hunt for the elusive particles continues.
In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.
Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
What if your best friend was an informant?
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author Charles Duhigg as he interviews Victoria Montgomery Brown, co-founder and CEO of Big Think.
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Here’s what it means for the field.
It doesn’t matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
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More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data. What have we really learned from it all?
There are a few clues that the Universe isn’t completely adding up. Even so, the standard model of cosmology holds up stronger than ever.
Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
Get rid of the notion that the best employees come from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
Conducting a thorough needs analysis requires care, curiosity, and open-mindedness.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
There’s an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
It has been 50 years since an American has claimed the title of World Chess Champion. Will it ever happen again?
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.
Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.