At four million solar masses, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?
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Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
In 2018, cancer drugs earned the pharmaceutical industry $123.8 billion. Soon, they’ll be worth billions more.
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75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.
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 […]
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You don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
Prosthetic arms can cost amputees $80,000. A startup called Unlimited Tomorrow is aiming to change that by making customized 3D-printed bionic arms for just $8,000.
A far-ranging conversation about telescopes, what they do, and who they impact. When most of us think of astronomy, we think about two types of scientists: the observers who point their […]
Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Innovative drugs are sometimes held up due to old-fashioned human biases.
It could lead to a massive uptake in those previously hesitant.
A larger vocabulary can be a confidence booster for children and make adults better communicators.
Coherentism accepts that circular reasoning is probably the best any of us can do.
Truth needs us to define the rules, grammar, and criteria for true statements. But can we do this within language itself?
The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, but we can see back 46.1 billion light-years. Here’s how the expanding universe does it.
Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]
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Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
‘Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.’
Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.
Research reveals a new evolutionary feature that separates humans from other primates.
Using modern tools, a team of astronomers uses celestial sleuthing to figure out when Vermeer painted his masterpiece “View of Delft.”