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You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

The closest known star that will soon undergo a core-collapse supernova is Betelgeuse, just 640 light-years away. Here’s what we’ll observe.

Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in “Elden Ring” and beyond.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

Scientists still aren’t sure how they perform without those restorative Z’s.

As far as we know, it’s only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.

Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.

Physicists recently created Coordinated Lunar Time, a time zone for our Moon.

Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.

Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.

Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist — Frederik Pferdt — lays out a map for navigating unprecedented change and innovation.

Executive presence training can help leaders learn how to better support their people, become more self aware, communicate effectively, and more.

True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.

But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.

The milestone puts us one step closer to ending the organ shortage.

We know sleep is more important than aimlessly scrolling on social media or checking our email for the 50th time. So, why do we do it?

Discover the ancient wisdom of not pushing the river.

“It’s remarkable how weak the correlation between success and intelligence is.” Here’s what skills do matter, from 3 business experts.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.

It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.

“Part of what’s happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”

Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.

Have you ever noticed how many things you interact with but can’t name? So did we.

Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.

The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.

To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.

AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.