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Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
NASA's minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data. What have we really learned from it all?
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
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.
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?
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
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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?
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: "Are we alone in the cosmos?"