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In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.
The Parker Solar Probe is about to undergo its seventh encounter with Venus on its journey toward the Sun. Here's how fast it'll go.
A simple plate of vegetables has found the gaping blindspots in generative AI, and points the way to fixing them.
New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?
“Having more stem cell activity is good for regeneration, but too much of a good thing over time can have less favorable consequences.”
Australia's AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Time is relative, not absolute, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. Your head and feet, therefore, don't age at the same rate.
Monica Parker explains how creating opportunities for wonder can help foster a thriving, inclusive workplace.
Despite many ultra-distant galaxy candidates found with JWST, we still haven't seen anything from the Universe's first 250 million years.
Mark Weinstein outlines a new path for social media that protects, respects, and empowers the regular users.
LHC scientists just showed that spooky quantum entanglement applies to the highest-energy, shortest-lived particles of all: top quarks.
Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.
Just 460 light-years away, the closest newborn protostars are forming in the Taurus molecular cloud. Here are JWST's astonishing insights.
Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
It's possible to remove all forms of matter, radiation, and curvature from space. When you do, dark energy still remains. Is this mandatory?
In the brain's language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.
CERN scientists achieved record-breaking accuracy in mapping the mass of a key particle in the Standard Model.
AI has become a black box in more ways than one.
It's deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.
Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil.
Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it's a losing strategy for elimination.
Almost all of the stars, planets, and interesting physics happens in the inner portions of galaxies. Is that conventional wisdom all wrong?
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Eric Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO, Gooder AI, argues machine learning (ML) projects go astray because their stakeholders focus too often on the technological fireworks — the “rocket science” of predictive models.