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Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.

In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government uses Newspeak to control thoughts by controlling language. But thoughts do not require language.

From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.

Zombies aren’t a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.

In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.

We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.

The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.

Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we’re going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.

Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.

In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?

Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.

In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.

It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.

To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?

After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?

Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.

When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.

Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.

Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.

The anthropic principle has fascinating scientific uses, where the simple fact of our existence holds deep physical lessons. Don’t abuse it!

Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.