Could famous sinkings and disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle have been prevented by advanced contemporary technology?
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God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.
In her book, Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray reports on the ethics and science behind de-extinction.
BASE particle physicists have discovered a very precise way to examine antimatter.
Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”
With a 5-10 year warning, we could develop a plan to change an asteroid’s trajectory.
Many people feel a profound connection to water, whether it’s oceans, rivers, or lakes. Now, science might have found an explanation.
Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers a slew of suggestions for how to break up negative vibes in the office.
The iconic physicist warns that we’d better find another planet in the next 100 years, or humanity is screwed.
Did you know the U.S. is actually almost half empty?
Gulp. Is that you, Santa?
And how if you try this with someone shorter than you are, you’ll find it extra convincing! “I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it’s flat to […]
Harvard scientists propose how mysterious Fast Radio Bursts from outer space could actually be powering the spacecrafts of an advanced alien civilization.
Seems our ancient ancestors were gettin’ jiggy with lots of other hominin species.
This could open allow for the exploration of nearby exoplanets, solar systems, and other parts of the galaxy.
It worked for Iran two years ago, and it can work again with the right negotiations. “We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is […]
How did New York end up there?
Stephen Hawking considers the future of humanity in a talk at Oxford University.
Some fear we are meddling with forces too powerful for human control.
The Earth is round, Kyrie Irving. But not every world needs to be. “‘I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,’ she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn’t have […]
The winning side in the U.S. presidential election rules a vast, contiguous land mass, the losers are cooped up on a far-flung archipelago
If the impossible space engine works, could dark matter reconcile the laws of physics with these bizarre experimental results? “…axions are potentially detectable through their weak coupling to electromagnetism…” –Aaron […]
The present story is only the beginning; there’s a revolution coming! “Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants […]
How the James Webb Space Telescope was made. “One way or another the first stars must have influenced our own history, beginning with stirring up everything and producing the other chemical […]
With $100 million invested towards it and an incredible concept behind it, could this be the start of interstellar travel? “Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It’s […]
Look who went and got himself a talk show. Big Think’s regular contributor Bill Nye will be on Netflix in 2017!
Big Think teams up with Hyper, a new premium video app that curates 10 videos each day, with no buffering or data depletion.
What narrow misses did NASA’s Juno probe face on the five-year journey to Jupiter, and it’s acrobatic slip into the orbit of our solar system’s largest planet?
The Planetary Society has unveiled the successor of its first solar sail project, the LightSail 2. It will take flight sometime this year when SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is ready.