Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
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There’s an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can’t explain it. Here’s why dark matter beats modified gravity.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
Known as hypervelocity stars, we originally thought just one would be ejected every 100,000 years. The real number is much greater.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a light-collecting power 10 times greater than today’s best telescope.
Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
Atomic nuclei form in minutes. Atoms form in hundreds of thousands of years. But the “dark ages” rule thereafter, until stars finally form.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
The Parthenon embodies the ideals of perfection Classical Greeks sought from architecture. The neighboring Erechtheion offers something else.
Aiming to unlock the secrets of his unconscious mind, Jung experimented with intensive daydreaming.
At age 37, neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke that would take her eight years to fully recover from. This is how it changed her understanding of the brain.
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The aging brain is networked differently.
If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?
Why would the Earth suddenly start vomiting forth huge quantities of mud?
The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
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Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous “trolley problem,” saying that it “hurts too much.”