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We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
After decades of development, whether NASA’s Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
This short story is a fictional account of two very real people — Anaximander and Anaximenes, two ancient Greeks who tried to make sense of the universe.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.
A battle between different kinds of love.
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.
Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.
A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
After 100 million nights of people asking, “What are those twinkly lights?” it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.
And, if we have one, how close are we to it? No matter which direction we look in, or how far away our telescopes and instruments are capable of seeing, the […]
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.
Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?