Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
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“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
Is the vast “Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area” the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn’t exist.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
Hybrid animals emerge when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery.
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.
That completely useless thing you want to get rid of — it’s probably more important than you think.
“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”
This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.
Temple Grandin’s story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.