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Using urinals, psychological collages, and animated furniture to shock us into reality.
If you want flexibility, transparency, and decent health policies, it seems like working in tech pays off.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago find that death triggers increased activity in certain brain cells.
Positive, romantic thoughts could produce positive, romantic outcomes while dating.
A team of biohackers is on a David-versus-Goliath mission to make insulin affordable to an increasing number of diabetics.
Here’s why you may want to opt-out of Amazon’s new shared network.
A reversal in Earth’s magnetic field 42,000 years ago triggered climate catastrophes and mass extinctions. Can the field flip again?
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Complex organisms and living worlds couldn’t exist without these transitions. You couldn’t make the Universe we have today if everything were always the same. Although many philosophically favored the idea […]
“For decades, a national anti-cruelty law was a dream for animal protectionists. Today, it is a reality.”
Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.
The Twin Jet nebula, shown here, is a stunning example of a bipolar preplanetary nebula. At the center, a dying star is in the final stages of life where it […]
A 50-year study reveals changing values children learned from pop culture.
For the first time, it was discovered that nonphotosynthetic bacteria have a circadian clock.
Ready to see the future? Nanotronics CEO Matthew Putman talks innovation and the solutions that are within reach.
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Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.
Even with six months’ notice, we can’t stop an incoming asteroid.
From AI to climate anxiety, youth are speaking up about mental health.
Join Radiolab’s Latif Nasser at 1pm ET today as he chats with Malcolm Gladwell live on Big Think.
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When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more.
Physics demands that it couldn’t be any other way. Here’s why. Ask anyone — even someone with no background in science — to name something that Einstein did, and odds are they’ll come back with […]
The metaverse has the potential to be revolutionary, for both good and bad. Here is how we can maximize the former and prevent the latter.
And, at some point, did the Milky Way lose ours? There are some 400 billion objects flying through the Milky Way galaxy with enough mass that — if they were all made of […]
Younger Americans support expanding the Supreme Court and serious political reforms, says new poll.
Aliens symbolize the best and worst of humanity. When we dream of aliens, we are pondering our future selves.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Belief systems aren’t necessarily dangerous until they’re spread by someone with influence.
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New research spotlights how low-income Black households face greater financial distress and vulnerability as a result of the pandemic economic crisis.