The Latest from Big Think

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Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.
Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
Nodes in a city's network.
History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But […]
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
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Dr. Katie Mack explains what dark energy is and two ways it could one day destroy the universe.
The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.
People often make a killing in stocks, but there are other ways to potentially turn major profits.
NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.
Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.
The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.
We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]
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Answering the question of who you are is not an easy task. Let's unpack what culture, philosophy, and neuroscience have to say.
When someone is lying to you personally, you may be able to see what they're doing.