The Latest from Big Think

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The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it's real.
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The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.
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In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars. 
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Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?
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Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
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An insect? A vermin? An unwanted animal? What in the world is Franz Kafka talking about?
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The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
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To advance the gender-affirming healthcare of all those who transition, we must also understand the nature and causes of those who detransition.
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"Human connection is as threatened by unhealthy peace as it is by unhealthy conflict." —Priya Parker
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In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.
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"Domesticated viral genes" may not be domesticated as scientists thought.
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More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
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Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
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And it seems to work alongside popular weight-loss medications, like Ozempic.
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The documents that convicted the infamous traitor were all kept in this unassuming leather pouch.
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In a far-reaching discovery with astrophysicist Karolina Garcia, we discuss what's in the Universe and how it grew up.