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To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
We knew we’d find galaxies unlike any seen before in its first deep-field image. But the other images hold secrets even more profound.
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
Welcome to the Big Think debut of The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a “reality threshold” that is lower than it should be.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
Mass sociogenic illnesses can afflict thousands of people.
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.
New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, boosting gaming systems, 5G networks, and more.
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here’s the sober truth.
One of Jetoptera’s VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
You’ve got to know when to fight and when to laugh.
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
In general, 5G is not a threat to human health or activities, but there are some legitimate questions about interference with airplane instruments.
In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can’t we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
The Shirky Principle states that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.