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A rare, ultra-diffuse galaxy is full of stars and not much else. Here’s how to make sense of it. One of the greatest puzzles in the entire Universe is the dark […]
Physicists attempt to answer some of science's biggest questions about the universe.
A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends' past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: "Don't be Pinkered into everything's-getting-better complacency."
 Executive coach Alisa Cohn, in her Big Think+ video, “Understand Ownership and Accountability: What It Means to Be In Charge When Things Go Wrong,” uses her experience with a company […]
A new study from Oregon State University makes it clear: it's you.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable" goes much farther than we once thought.
The ability to instantaneously jump from one location in space to another clearly violates the laws of physics. Or does it? There are a few rules in the Universe that seem […]
In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
Rwanda is pioneering the regulation and use of drones - such as delivering blood
Legislators push to keep cursive in their schools' curricula, but experts seem split as to whether it's necessary.
A wealthy team doesn't automatically make for a successful team.
Buddhism and Western science converge on a number of ideas.
Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.
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For Damien Echols, tattoos are part of his existential armor.
With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]