“We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.
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In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.
The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
The Big Bang’s hot glow faded away after only a few million years, leaving the Universe dark until the first stars formed. Oh, the changes!
One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our “future selves” as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
Financial setbacks are more common than you might think.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
A researcher weighs in on who’s accountable, when and why, in the eyes of the law — and whether the measures work as intended.
It’s all about salesmanship.
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.
The first elements in the Universe formed just minutes after the Big Bang, but it took hundreds of thousands of years before atoms formed.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein’s mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here’s why it had to be there.
For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here’s how protons and neutrons arose.