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Study identifies predictors of which students are likely to do well in education.
Charity and volunteering not only benefit the recipient but help you become happier and healthier in the new year.
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Third on the Big Think 2019 countdown reveals this is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.
Astronomy’s enduring quest is to go farther, fainter, and more detailed than ever before. Here’s the edge of the cosmic frontier. Astronomers have always sought to push back the viewable […]
Russian astrophysicists propose the Casimir Effect causes the universe's expansion to accelerate.
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Taking the fourth spot on Big Think's 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
"I've got Santa on the phone and he says he's not coming unless you go to bed now."
Christmas Day is the least popular birthday in several countries.
Does a person still get to be "the honorable" if they are tossed out for not being honorable?
A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.
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Next on Big Think's 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
A black hole’s event horizon is thought of as the point of no return. But perhaps there are ways back out, after all. Black holes just might be the most extreme […]
European Word Translator: a simple idea adds a cartographic flourish to Google's online translation service
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Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think's sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
Finding the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and imaging a black hole’s event horizon were huge. There’s even more to the story. From a scientific point of view, the 2010s have been […]
The racing plane is hoped to be the fastest electric plane in existence.
The 385-million-year-old fossils show that trees evolved modern features millions of years earlier than previously estimated.
Princeton scientists find a new way to control nuclear fusion reactions.
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Continuing the countdown, Big Think's seventh most popular video of 2019 explains why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.
The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn't true.