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In a gas cloud 26,000 light-years away, a 4-carbon sugar, erythrulose, has just been found. Here's what it means for life in the Milky Way.
Neither a victory nor a defeat, the Korean War lingers in a stalemate that remains unresolved.
People are almost always different to how we imagine them
Mars is very different than Earth: smaller, drier, colder, etc. But the biggest long-term challenge, for human colonies, is its low gravity.
These iconic literary characters shine a light on our enduring fascination with dangerous minds.
Mathematics is our language for quantitatively describing reality, but it can also take us to worlds that never were. Physics needs more.
Astrophysicist Adam Frank used to think the consequences of rejecting science would play out on the individual level. He's since changed his mind.
Many think that intelligence can be outsourced to AI. Einstein wouldn't have used it. If he had, he never would have become Einstein.
Today's surveillance economy is not inevitable. Data can become a public resource instead of a tool of control.
Despite the brilliance of these cosmic beacons, only 1% of a core-collapse supernova's energy is observable. The other 99% is in neutrinos.
With nearly 400 black hole events from gravitational waves, we can begin to infer their origins. At least two different populations emerge.
The history of atoms in the Universe is our own history: without them, there would be no us. So how do we piece their cosmic story together?
The movie gestures at one of humanity's biggest questions yet chooses to look away, writes Big Think producer Clark Frankel.
A gifted paperback sends me down a rabbit hole to discover whether how we read is just as important as what we read.
For all we know, the cosmos could truly be infinite in scale. But the observable part of our Universe? It's finite, and its size is known.
A writer’s search for an affordable home leads to the desert — and a community building a different kind of American dream.
I’ve lived in a converted van for six years. The freedom is real — but so are the trade-offs people rarely talk about.
From Amish Country to Slab City, these are the places where Americans reject the mainstream.
The ambiguity of Bartleby shows that opting out can be a form of resistance, retreat, or something harder to judge.
This carriage maker didn’t get wiped out by the automobile. Instead, it became one of the most successful car businesses in European history.