Multi-messenger astronomy further widens our window to the universe.
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April 20, 4:20 in stoner folklore, is a day of celebration—as well as a 12 percent increase in fatal car crashes.
Though conventional wisdom suggests that birth order influences personality, newer research says this isn’t true. What is true is how powerful an effort to remain close to our brothers and sisters as we grow up can be.
“Enforcing language norms is a way of enforcing power structures.”
A “new” Roman library has been found in Germany. What might it have had in it?
To explain the origin of everything, science needs to explain itself.
A new study shows that photographing something doesn’t help you remember it. Looks like the ol’ “Take a picture, it’ll last longer” insult doesn’t actually hold any water.
Why do secular groups often act like churches? The answer is simpler than you think.
We knew that coffee is good for us. Now we know why.
Addiction Now has developed infographics based on a survey of 1,000 people who were asked what they thought would be appropriate sentences for drug crimes. It’s pretty different than what they really are.
Big Think speaks with the American who’s spent the most time in space, astronaut Peggy Whitson, looking back on what she learned during life in orbit.
It’s okay to be skeptical. That’s why we have evidence. In all of human history, only 24 people have ever flown to the vicinity of the Moon, traveling hundreds of […]
New research spots a remarkable meeting of Jupiter’s jet streams and its magnetic field and proposes that it may contain the explanation for the planets’ striking cloud patterns.
Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world’s roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.
In a stark reversal on immigration policy, President Donald Trump signed an order on Wednesday that ends the controversial practice of separation immigrant children from families at the border.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, says she’s recorded multiple secret audio tapes at the White House, including one of her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Three years after the Charleston massacre, the ‘Lost Cause’ is still honoured throughout the South – and beyond
There have already been more gun deaths from mass school shootings this century than during the entirety of the last century.
This year’s prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it. Every year, the most prestigious prize in the most fundamental of […]
What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?
One day, we might be able to say that the dog saved the cheetah from extinction.
Choosing a diet is hard for many people. But it doesn’t have to be.
A new study discovers that engaging in back-and-forth conversations with a child builds stronger connections between two of their brains’ vital critical speech areas, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Find out the multiple ways we classify and ascertain what constitutes intelligence.
Are you a ‘Big-Endian’ or a ‘Little-Endian’? Swift’s satirical take on religious wars gave us the jargon to describe our different date and address formats.
The most famous study in psychology turns out to be theater, and the lead researcher is over defending his myth.
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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The ultimate fate of the universe is a mind-bogglingly thing to think about. So what’s the final outcome for it all?