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A recent study overviews the thinnest X-ray detector ever created.
In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?
Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.
No matter how beautiful, elegant, or compelling your idea is, if it disagrees with observation and experiment, it’s wrong.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.
Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
Recent geopolitical turning points, like Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, were chapters in a story that extends decades back in world history.
Get the most out of your coffee.
Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
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Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
The Universe is supposed to be the same everywhere and in all directions. So what’s that giant “cold spot” doing out there?
These practical strategies can help you conquer burnout and achieve a state of calm and focused productivity.
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
With two different black hole event horizons now directly imaged, we can see that they are, in fact, rings, not disks. But why?
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.
Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a “school without a master” than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
How one startup plans to use “death rays” for good instead of evil.
Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener’s safety.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.