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The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.

Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.

Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.

Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.

∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.

We take for granted that time is real. But what if it’s only an illusion, and a relative illusion at that? Does time even exist?

The corporate unicorn was yesterday — now we should consider the wisdom of black and white stripes.

In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.

Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.

So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.

The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.

While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.

Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?

As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.

Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.

Scientists might be looking for Martian life in the wrong place.

Our understanding always will remain incomplete.

Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.

In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes of light.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”

Even the dictionary doesn’t get the definition right.

When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.

Will you die when your body dies?

Smart investors recognize that the stock market doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?