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IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.
In 2017, we detected gold being forged in a neutron star-neutron star merger. Now, in 2024, the amounts created simply don't add up.
Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact.
The Gallup World Poll reveals regional peaks and valleys of happiness across all of the continents.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
The most iconic "dark nebula" of all lights up under JWST's infrared gaze. Here's what's newly discovered inside.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
This may be the largest helium reservoir in U.S. history.
Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?
Beef production is largely responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
A battle between different kinds of love.
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
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“Masculinity” has become synonymous with “toxic.” Journalist Christine Emba explains how that happened, and how it can change.
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Humanity has two giant collisions to thank for its existence, explains biologist Sean B. Carroll.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?