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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.
Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.
Annie Duke, a poker champion turned decision scientist, talks with Big Think about how to choose well under uncertainty.
The tiniest galaxies of all are the most severely dominated by dark matter. Could black holes be the cause of the extra gravity instead?
A few physical quantities, in all laboratory experiments, are always conserved: including energy. But for the entire Universe? Not so much.
For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
4mins
"If we did create beings that were more like non-human animals, we ought to treat them much better than we now treat non-human animals."
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
Viewing Uranus's largest moons with Hubble, astronomers hoped to find darkening on the trailing side. They found the exact opposite instead.
The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.
In "The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs," Riley Black reveals the bold mammals that thrived in the Age of Reptiles.
On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.
6mins
These microbes endured the unlivable. The NASA astrobiologist who studies them reveals what that means for us today
The first galaxies were irregular blobs of gas and stars. But modern features, like spiral arms and bars, appeared earlier than expected.
The hunt for extraterrestrial life begins with planets like Earth. But our inhabited Earth once looked very different than Earth does today.
43mins
"If we're related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives."
If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old today, but different ages the farther we look back, what does it mean for a star to be the first?
John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.
5mins
“When you think about this interconnection of all these tiny causes and effects which add up to the way the world unfolds, it becomes impossible to imagine that we have complete control.”
The COSMOS-Web has just finalized their release of their full field: larger and deeper than any other JWST program. Here's what's inside.