What would energy without a particle to attach itself to even look like? “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on […]
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There is one essential ingredient missing, argues historian Yuval Noah Harari.
Amoebas one-tenth the width of a human hair may someday help diffuse a bioterror attack.
You know what would make LEGO even better? A base tape that lets you build against gravity.
This study reminds us that we are stardust, operating under the same laws as any other form of matter.
The program picked up association biases nearly identical to those seen in human subjects.
Say it should fall. It’ll cost over $1 trillion to rehabilitate the nation. Who’s going to pay for that?
The 20th century held some incredible advances across all the science. But astrophysics’ best days are yet to come. “When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up […]
Five hundred years after the Reformation, a new book on Martin Luther reminds us how long the notion of a soul has influenced our lives.
A recent study shows that migrant workers in the U.K. are three times less likely to be absent from work than their native counterparts.
New research shows an abundance of testosterone leads to poor decision making.
We urgently need fresh new thinking in order to address the scale and gravity of today’s global challenges, which have outgrown the present system’s ability to handle them.
Americans understands very well what feels wrong – and there’s a piece of U.S. economic policy that the establishment and educated elites haven’t been fully honest about, says Pia Malaney.rn
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Musical savants have “enhanced pitch discrimination” and “increased auditory perceptual capacity.” But why?
Everyone encounters stereotypes. But what you do afterward says something about you
Among other things, researchers found that there are two subgroups of the Alt-Right, but that the more economically motivated members may buy into White Supremacy over time.
How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]
A study suggests that countries with a high prevalence of parasites are likely to have authoritarian governments.
An astronomer thinks he sees the next red nova about to happen, and when.
A small, icy planet with a weirdly elliptical orbit has been discovered beyond Pluto.
More than 90% of the eclipses to ever happen on Earth have already occurred. Don’t miss the next one! “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded […]
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell explains why we shouldn’t be afraid of alien visitors.
The future success or failure of the economy is up to the young, and many countries could do better to equip them.
Another week, another chance to stick our comment-boots on and wade out deep into the Big Think Facebook page to cherry pick our favorites for the week.
A physicist has an experiment to see if the mind operates on a quantum level.
DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense military research agency, whose work has resulted in staples of modern life such as the Internet and GPS systems, is now working with a […]
If gay people could unite America enough to win the right to marry, surely an entire society can borrow from that playbook to get the US back on track.
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Genetic, immune, and neurological components point to evolutionary underpinnings.