Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
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Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
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One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.
“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
An elephant at the Bronx Zoo has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
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Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
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Nutrisystem is a smarter weight-loss program that users enjoy.
From “mutilated males” to “wandering wombs,” dodgy science affects how we view the female body still today.
Most things in the world can be seen in surprisingly different ways.
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people.
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]