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These findings may help us better understand how humans perceive our environment and make decisions based on sensory information.

The four fundamental forces might have been just a single, unified one in the very early Universe. Could that be true? “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves […]

Consider carefully the words of Willy Loman and Maya Angelou.

Dark energy may be real and the Universe may be accelerating, but does that mean a Big Freeze is inevitable? “It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in […]

If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet, consider these 10 gifts, good any time of year! One of the hardest things when it comes to holiday shopping is to find […]

Here are some of the most impactful scientific achievements in a year full of discoveries.

Mark Twain once said that God created war so that Americans would learn geography. Twain died before World War I, but his sardonic remark still has meaning.

Right and wrong has never been so gray in the Star Trek Universe. Imagine you’re in a fight with an enemy, and the fight itself isn’t fair. You might have […]

The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 23 brand new videos! The experts featured below are diverse in both their backgrounds and skill sets, ranging from a theoretical physicist […]

This sucks. And is also great for the environment. 

Musk is about more than Teslas and rockets. 

NASA is close to testing its next-generation nuclear fission reactors that would power a Mars colony and propel space exploration.

University of Houston researchers discover a catalyst that may make commercial-scale hydrogen extraction from water possible.

Gravitational waves and spacetime ripples have so much more to do with the Universe than just merging black holes. “The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one […]

If we see an atomic nucleus decay in a particular way, it means the Universe is fundamentally different from how we see it today. “There are several categories of scientists in […]

All sorts of futuristic technologies have come true. So why are astronauts all still weightless? Put a human being up in space, away from the gravitational bonds of the surface […]

Never heard of SKA, the square kilometer array? Once it starts taking data, you’ll never forget it. “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for […]

His guiding spirit Thomas helped the author make better financial decisions and take care of his health.    

What it would take to make a ‘mirror Universe’ a reality. The idea of parallel Universes has been around for over 60 years now, giving a theoretically physical existence to all […]

Do these five experiments right in your own living room, and explore some of the most baffling phenomena in all of nature. It’s a revolutionary idea that the Universe is made […]

Sometimes, you look in a nearby galaxy, and what you find beyond it will change everything. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity has withstood every test for more than a century. […]

How precise can measurements get? Imagine accurately measuring a quartz crystal with merely a few photons.   

People are snorting chocolate in Europe and now in America.

This research may help us develop diamonds for products and better understand nuclear fusion.   

Chemists are surprised to find that berkelium electrons seem to live outside of quantum mechanics.

With a journey of 130 million light years, both signals should move at the speed of light. So why did one get here first? On August 17, after a journey taking […]

Researchers succeed in an 80-year-old quest to find the elusive “angel particle”.

What’s really involved in snuffing out a country’s nuclear capabilities—and is that the right war to be waging?

“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.