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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.
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.
Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in "Elden Ring" and beyond.
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here's what they really mean.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
NASA's only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
Physicists just can't leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th's total eclipse will bring.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.