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.
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The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.
When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.
Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien.
“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen.
Ironically, the company did so using technology perfected by the oil industry.
“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Quite a lot, actually, even though it has no identifiable value as a scientific concept.
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
If the daily grind feels like Sartre’s phony act of “bad faith,” Heidegger’s sense of “being” can help redefine your role.
Zuranolone might help people feel better sooner than if they were relying on standard treatment alone.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not to mark Mexican independence.
NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Capsaicin is already used to treat nerve pain. Early research hints it could do more.