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Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.

Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community's best image ever.

Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it's magical.

Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.

It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.

If it weren't for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn't have formed neutral atoms "only" ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.

Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.

One of Jetoptera's VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.

∆G = ∆H - T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.

Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]

Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life's emotions — even the negative ones.

When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we're only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here's where the rest are.

Can ChatGPT help you power through writer's block?

Engineers borrowed the maple tree's "helicopter" to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.

If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.

Often viewed as a theoretical, calculational tool only, the Lamb Shift proved their existence. If you spend enough time listening to theoretical physicists, it starts to sound like there are […]

Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

The sacrifices of early astronauts paved the way for Apollo’s successes, and so much more. In all of history, only 24 humans have ever escaped Earth’s gravity. The very first launch […]

It peaks the nights of August 11–13, but it’s no longer the year’s most reliable meteor shower. Every year, beginning in mid-July, planet Earth commences passing through an enormous debris […]

Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]

Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.

NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller is coming back to Big Think's studio soon to answer YOUR questions! Here's all you need to know to submit your science-related inquiries.

One hypothesis says that sleep helps "clean" the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.

There are ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and ~2 trillion galaxies in the visible Universe. But what if we aren't typical?

The laws of physics state that you can't create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?

Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.

New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.

We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?

If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]