Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
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Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
The tonal Native American language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.
From up close, the cracking sound of a thunderclap dominates. From far away, it’s more like a drawn-out rumble. Can science explain why?
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the “silent evidence.”
The atmosphere’s habitable zone is so small, several mountain ranges extend beyond it.
“What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter.”
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
At very high and very low temperatures, matter takes on properties that open up an entire Universe of remarkable new possibilities.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.
There is much more to the Kama Sutra than just sex. It’s a guide to anyone wanting more pleasure in life, however they take it.
In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.
“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!