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A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
We’ve heard this argument before.
In the wake of the pandemic, the crystal industry boomed, with customers hoping the stones might relieve a little anxiety.
It could lead to earlier diagnoses, better treatment, and fewer deaths from pancreatic cancer, which kills 88% of patients within five years.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
Big Think recently spoke with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about the surprising consequences of forgoing sleep.
Coupled with 3D printing, biomining the Moon or Mars with microbes could sustain human colonies without constant re-supply from Earth.
It’s safe to use your face cream, as long as you aren’t eating it.
The passage of time is something we all experience, as it takes us from one moment to the next. But could it all just be an illusion?
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.
As Uranus approaches its solstice, its polar caps, rings, and moons come into their best focus ever under JWST’s watchful eye. See it now!
Intentions tend to get mangled by overreach in every complex organization — so dial up the charisma and the clarity.
Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.
Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.