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In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.
MIT Professor Sinan Aral's new book, "The Hype Machine," explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.
Researchers detect a large lake and several ponds deep under the ice of the Martian South Pole.
"Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…"
The microbes that eventually produced the planet's oxygen had to breathe something, after all.
Techshot's 3D BioFabrication Facility successfully printed human heart tissue aboard the International Space Station.
Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
Alexandre Dumas' famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? There are certain things in the Universe that, if you leave them alone for long enough, they’ll eventually decay away. […]
Would you ever have sex with a robot?
This space expansionist ideology marked the beginning of what Arendt called "earth alienation."
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
What would happen if you tripled the US population? Matthew Yglesias and moderator Charles Duhigg explore the idea on Big Think Live.
Telescopes from the ground are bigger, but have to fight the atmosphere. Here’s how to win. In astronomy, seeing farther and fainter than ever before requires three simultaneous approaches. First light, […]
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
43% of people think they can get a sense of someone's personality by their picture.
17th-century outbreaks of plague in Italy reveal both tensions between religious and public health authorities.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.