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Proteus could someday be used to create extremely strong and lightweight armor and locks.
The world’s 10 most affected countries are spending up to 59% of their GDP on the effects of violence.
It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]
The inevitable long, slow decline is accelerating, and there’s nothing we can do. The Universe, as it is today, is less active, is forming fewer stars, and is creating fewer chances […]
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
Despite the claims of one of Earth’s newest Nobel Laureates, the data doesn’t lie. One of the greatest scientific successes of the past century was the theory of the hot Big […]
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
After 20 months, scientists find lab-dish brain cells matured at a similar rate to those of an actual infant.
A cosmic puzzle is finally solved, as new observations answer the question of why this galaxy exists at all. For the last couple of years, astronomy has had a tremendous puzzle […]
Theoretically, we know what happened on the red planet. Here’s how we’ll find out whether we’re right. When it comes to the worlds beyond Earth in our Solar System, it’s only […]
Starling flocks, schools of fish, and clouds of insects all agree.
The UAE is the first Arab nation to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet.
The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.
To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]
Watch the plasma slide down the prominence like a roller coaster! Our Sun, despite it’s outward appearance as a perfectly hot sphere, is anything but uniform. When take a closer look […]
While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
The future of cities on the Moon, Mars and orbital habitats.
Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
A curated list of must-watch films from Big Think readers.
Turns out chitin is quite useful when you need a wrench.