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Did America's collective mental health get worse (and then better) after the first COVID-19 lockdown?
Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.
More than a century after the end of hostilities in 1918, some battlefields of WWI are still deadly enough to kill you.
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7 scholars and legal experts dissect what you can and can't say in America.
Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.
What can 'behaviorism' teach us about ourselves?
Some mysteries take generations to unfold.
The Big Bang is our accepted origin of the Universe. But is there another possibility? Since the mid-1960s and the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Big Bang has […]
A new study finds that dogs fed fresh human-grade food don't need to eat—or do their business—as much.
Introducing the Deep Space Food Challenge.
Adam Frank, a card-carrying atheist and physics professor, wonders if there might be more to life than pure science.
Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]
"Deepfakes" and "cheap fakes" are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.
Life is absurd, that detail can be the start of a great many things.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
Radar astronomy is nothing new, but a new transmitter may give us unprecedented image resolution.
Researchers discover strange behavior in magnetars, ultra-powerful magnetic stars.
Science doesn't exist in a cultural and existential vacuum and its teaching shouldn't either.
Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]