Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
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In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.
Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.
Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here’s why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
What do ghosts and anomalous galaxy rotation rates have in common? Some sci-fi enthusiasts believe the answer involves “parallel universes.”
Cam Lawrence — CEO of international venture platform Newlab — joins Big Think Business to discuss his strategic vision for climate tech.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city’s worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here’s why.
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
Historically, astronomers have often named things creatively, bizarrely, and often inaccurately. But which terms are the most egregious?
There are two types of missing, or “dark” matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
We’ve heard this argument before.
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here’s the story of its 100th anniversary.
There are a few clues that the Universe isn’t completely adding up. Even so, the standard model of cosmology holds up stronger than ever.
