It wasn’t the birth of space and time. But it was truly essential to our cosmic story. For more than 50 years, we’ve had definitive scientific evidence that our Universe, as […]
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Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.
A new dinosaur species related to Tyrannosaurs found in Canada.
The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our […]
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that’s winning now won’t win in the end. If you could measure the average distance […]
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.
A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
For too long, we’ve treated racism as a personality trait or a vague systemic menace rather than the result of policies and ideas created deliberately to benefit some groups at the expense of others. As a result, too many anti-racist efforts have collapsed into name-calling sessions, failing to achieve their goals. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist, sees a better way.
We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.
The dream of an ‘Earth-like’ planet showcases our astrobiological ignorance. Over the past decade, our understanding of what planets exist around stars other than our own has exploded. The number […]
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
At a very simple level, it’s nothing but physics. Here’s why you should care. It’s not very often that a physics problem becomes a politicized issue, but that’s exactly what’s happened […]
Even after our merger with Andromeda, we might retain our spiral shape for trillions of years. You probably don’t think about it very often, but the Milky Way galaxy won’t remain […]
Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet’s trove of unseemly content.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
Innovative drugs are sometimes held up due to old-fashioned human biases.
Taking preventive measures and investing in positive mental health can impact productivity, company culture, and staff turnover.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
The renowned magician recently joined Big Think CEO and cofounder Victoria Brown for a wide-ranging discussion.
What can 3D printing do for medicine? The “sky is the limit,” says Northwell Health researcher Dr. Todd Goldstein.
About 21 percent of gamers in the United States are over the age of 50.
Hubble has been operational for nearly 30 years, and still produces the most spectacular images of all. Here are this year’s best. Hubble, astronomy’s revolutionary observatory, narrowly survived last year’s gyroscope […]
We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).