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Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.

Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.

Researchers in Singapore invented a novel device that may help the island nation illuminate its growing underground infrastructure.

Instead of digging for metals, we could extract them from salty, subterranean water.

Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the “dataome” for the physical, biological, and human worlds.

It’s been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here’s how we know.

The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.

How can you “touch the Sun” if you’ve always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun’s photosphere?

Einstein’s relativity teaches us that time isn’t absolute, but passes relatively for everyone. So how do telescopes see back through time?

The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?

Cognitive fatigue results from thinking too hard and long. Neuroscientists now believe they know why this occurs.

The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.

There are several different types of learner engagement, from emotional to cognitive. Here’s how to improve each.

And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.

Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.

Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.

Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.

Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?

The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.

From emotional intelligence to problem solving, these management training topics will set team leaders up for success.

A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.

A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.

There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.

Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.

It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.

Cody Delistraty explores if laughter can help alleviate the physical symptoms of grief.

Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.

It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.

These dissolvable pills aren’t meant to be swallowed, though.