In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”
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To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Independent of cultural background, people seem to share a sense of what makes certain color combinations aesthetically pleasing.
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?
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.
James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.
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In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?
Your brain is trying to show you the future.
By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
This first-of-its-kind image offers a detailed look at the magnetic fields within the Central Molecular Zone.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
A classical equivalent to Chanel No. 5.
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.
Your organization won’t become a “data democracy” organically — shared knowledge is key.
To be happy, you have to become antifragile first. Harvard’s Tal Ben-Shahar explains.
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Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
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?
9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.