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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.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Without wormholes, warp drive, or some type of new matter, energy, or physics, everyone is limited by the speed of light. Or are they?
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
A more diverse workforce will produce better solutions in fast-changing markets.
Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there's a good chance you have too much insulin.
Stars are born, live, and die within the spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way. These 19 JWST spirals deliver unprecedented riches.
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
If our Milky Way were located in the Virgo cluster instead of the Local Group, chances are we'd already be a "red and dead" galaxy.
The new electrically conductive substrate could be the future of hydroponic farming.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
Valles Marineris is the Solar System's grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here's the story of our cosmic home.