A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
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NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
Still, the author’s main argument wasn’t totally discredited.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
Shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly, then the entire city caught fire.
In the ongoing battle against PTSD, a potential new weapon emerges: a nasal spray loaded with neuropeptide Y.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
We’re overthinking being nice.
Perhaps there was something theatrically satisfying about a learned man waving around a flask of pee, looking at it from all angles, sniffing it, and making bold proclamations.
Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.
Having a “buff” skeleton prevents infirmity in old age.
There is currently no easy way to treat high Lp(a). A single shot could change that.
Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.”
Temperatures in the Sun’s core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.
Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.