Since the dawn of history, humans have pondered our ultimate cosmic origins. Now in the 21st century, science has gone beyond the Big Bang.
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Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
The “subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane” helps shield and protect the brain.
Temperatures in the Sun’s core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
“Fasting…should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while.”
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.
Some solar cells are so lightweight they can sit on a soap bubble.
“I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places.”
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
The Universe didn’t begin with a bang, but with an inflationary “whoosh” that came before. Here are the biggest questions that still remain.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a light-collecting power 10 times greater than today’s best telescope.
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Stars are born, live, and die within the spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way. These 19 JWST spirals deliver unprecedented riches.
Known as hypervelocity stars, we originally thought just one would be ejected every 100,000 years. The real number is much greater.
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
Understanding Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning can help you become a catalyst of change.
It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
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.