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Let’s hope that squid don’t evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
A new generation of leaders is forging a path for 21st-century capitalism that’s both profitable and socially responsible.
Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science shows we’re actually anything but average.
Like sneaking veggies into dessert, these board games teach STEM, strategy, and executive functions through the joys of play.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
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Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
The electromagnetic force can be attractive, repulsive, or “bendy,” but is always mediated by the photon. How does one particle do it all?
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.
The Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order would be just one quarter the size of Vatican City.
If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.