And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
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International enrollment and applications to American grad schools are plummeting. This is the opposite of what makes America great. Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, America emerged at the […]
This list of 10 non-winners is 50% women, but 100% outrageous. In science, advances often come in great leaps. In hindsight, it’s easy to identify perhaps hundreds of small steps […]
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has failed to adequately address human rights violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar, according to Canadian legislators.
Despite his famous successes, Einstein also had some failures.
Can neuroscience provide an alternative hypothesis for the Mandela effect, without evoking quantum physics?
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has died at the age of 80. Who was he?
Researchers find out why some people believe utter BS.
If we find the earliest signal from the Universe’s birth, how can we be sure we aren’t fooling ourselves? When it comes to the origin of the Universe, the Big […]
Richard Feynman wrote a lot of things. Here, you can read his most touching letter.
The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.
Economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why surging cryptocurrency bitcoin should be banned.
Finding the particle we assume is responsible for dark matter has always been a guessing game. We guessed wrong. You can’t get mad at a team for trying the improbable, hoping […]
An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise. It was a mere 20 years ago that our picture of the Universe got a […]
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Richard Thaler is trying to simplify economics. So they gave him the Nobel Prize.
In 1922, Albert Einstein explained how to live a happy life to a bellboy in Tokyo.
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A well-deserved award for the discovery over a century in the making. “Well, I walked into Building 20 and looked in at the various little labs. There was a bunch of […]
They proved how the biological mechanism works inside our cells.
Propofol does more than knock a patient out — it blocks neural connections.
Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.
How useful are the algorithms dating sites use? According to one regulatory agency, not very.
Are déjà vu and the Mandela Effect related? A theory by physicist Michio Kaku may help explain.
India is a vast land, rich in history, beauty, and great ideas. Here, we want to introduce you to ten great minds in Indian thought. These ten thinkers span thousands of years, include several religions, and more than a few fields of expertise.
Just like everything else in life, good health is all about timing.
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Why the 2017 Nobel Prize isn’t the end, but the start, of something really, really big. “Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.” –Jonathan […]
The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 20 brand new videos! How does an astronaut bridge cultural divide? This month, take new perspectives on the interesting world we work […]
These scientists scooped up the Nobel by detecting a ripple in space-time.