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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.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can't detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
On the morning of April 20, 1961, all conditions were "go" for an attempt at free flight. A man was on standby with a fire extinguisher. Just in case.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
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“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there's an associated conserved quantity. Here's the profound link.
Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions
During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
Explore data on electric car sales and stocks worldwide.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.
Even if you aren't in the path of totality, you can still use the solar eclipse to measure how long it takes the Moon to orbit Earth.
Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
There are only a precious few minutes of totality during even the best solar eclipses. Don't waste yours making these avoidable mistakes.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.