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Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?

We love a good heist movie, but our favorite part is not the caper. It’s building the team.  The brilliant thief—just out of jail to do one more job, he […]

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Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.

Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.

Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.

The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.

The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.

When we limit the clash of ideas, we ultimately hinder progress for the entire society.

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Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.

The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.

Big Think’s eighth most popular video of the year reveals what the real future of war could look like.

Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.

Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.

The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.

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A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.

Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.

A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.

A new theory suggests that dreams’ illogical logic has an important purpose.

Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.

How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.

Join Big Think Live for a discussion with human rights advocate and best-selling author Shaka Senghor. Learn how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the prison population and why it has […]

Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.

A retraction regarding a May 6, 2019 article entitled “Are these 100 people killing the planet?”

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