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The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.

There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.

Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.

Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.

Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.

Here’s what it means for the field.

It’s no longer just VR vs. AR. There is an alphabet soup of metaverse acronyms, often used imprecisely. So, what do they all mean?

Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]

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What would happen if you tripled the US population? Matthew Yglesias and moderator Charles Duhigg explore the idea on Big Think Live.

It doesn’t matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.

In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.

We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don’t agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.

Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.

The revolution is already happening.

A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.

Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?

2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.

Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.

The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.

A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.

The danger posed by conversational AI isn’t that it can say weird or dark things; it’s personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.

In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”