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They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
At all distances, the Universe expands along our line-of-sight. But we can’t measure side-to-side motions; could it be rotating as well?
Step 1: Don’t solve the wrong problem.
The cost of seeing yourself as a thief is pretty steep, the results of a 2019 study suggest.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Black holes aren’t just the densest masses in the Universe, but they also spin the fastest of all massive objects. Here’s why it must be so.
Dark matter hasn’t been directly detected, but some form of invisible matter is clearly gravitating. Could the graviton hold the answer?
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.
Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn’t instant.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.