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Are you in love? Trust your mother over your brain.

Sick of remembering a random string of letters, numbers, and special characters?

Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.

How efficiently could quantum engines operate?

Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.

The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.

On June 20, 2024, the summer solstice occurs at its earliest moment since 1796: when George Washington was President of the USA. Here’s why.

A new tuna robot leads the way to more agile underwater robots and drones.

We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here’s why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.

If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can’t two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why.

More than a decade ago, Armenia made chess a required subject in school because it teaches kids how to think and cope with failure. The U.S. should follow suit.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.

From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.

The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.

“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.

According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.

Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.

From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.

Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.

If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.

In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.

You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?

In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there’s no stable “neutronium” at all. But what’s the reason why?

If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.

There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data. What have we really learned from it all?

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?

A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.