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While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.

Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.

While Saturn and its moons all appear faint and cloudy to JWST, Saturn’s rings are the star of the show. Here’s the big scientific reason.

To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.

Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.

In our Universe, matter is made of particles, while antimatter is made of antiparticles. But sometimes, the physical lines get real blurry.

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.

James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.

Here in our Solar System, we only have one star: a singlet. For many systems, including the highest-mass ones, that’s anything but the norm.

This first-of-its-kind image offers a detailed look at the magnetic fields within the Central Molecular Zone.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?

Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.

50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.

The observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve it?

In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”

9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.

By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.

Your brain is trying to show you the future.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.

Your organization won’t become a “data democracy” organically — shared knowledge is key.

A classical equivalent to Chanel No. 5.

This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.

A proton is the only stable example of a particle composed of three quarks. But inside the proton, gluons, not quarks, dominate.

Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.

Independent of cultural background, people seem to share a sense of what makes certain color combinations aesthetically pleasing.

Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.

All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.

Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.