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As of October 1, the U.K. will make it illegal to sell puppies and kittens from third-party sources in a bid to end puppy mills and commercial breeding catteries, eliminate pet-shop sales, and rein in unscrupulous breeders.
An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon.
Crazy Rich Asians is the first film to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years. It is also a bonafide success, both financially and culturally. Inspired by its fanfare, Big Think looks at seven other films that shook American society.
"Hang on, Mom. My coffee just flew in." IBM just filed a patent for drones to deliver coffee to people that they “sense” need it.
When people think of the word “diversity,” what usually comes to mind are the basic categorizations, such as racial diversity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. However, diversity goes far beyond […]
Researchers have just discovered the remains of a hybrid human.
Never draw a conclusion, no matter how ‘obvious,’ without doing the experiment first. We all love our most cherished ideas about how the world and the Universe works. Our conception […]
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Venture capitalists do not invest in female and minority entrepreneurs in any significant way. Nathalie Molina Niño explains several viable fundraising alternatives that won't require founders to give up control of their companies.
The first serious scientific study of STEVE, the ribbons of white and purple light in northern skies, reveals they’re not auroras—they’re something new and unexplained.
Some Democrats and political analysts are calling Trump an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ after his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight felonies.
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has died at the age of 80. Who was he?
There are two classes of so-called "big questions." The former are invented, and the latter can be fully answered by science.
When Adele sings "It felt like a movie...", there's a scientific reason that it did. Your brain is technically unconscious about 240 times a minute.
Two men formerly close to President Donald Trump are now facing prison in a development that could prove consequential for Trump’s longevity in office and the U.S. political system in general.
It’s a start. More to come?
What causes the urban-rural cultural divide? According to this author, its how we view our communities.
The Universe was born matter-antimatter symmetric. Here’s what happened when the last of our antimatter disappeared. Things happen fast in the earliest stages of the Universe. In the first 25 […]
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Sky-high rent, second jobs, and wealth-worshipping 1% TV shows—journalist Alissa Quart explains how the American dream became a dystopia, and why it's so hard for middle-class Americans to get by.
As part of Ipsos’ long-running studies on misperceptions, researchers asked people in Britain and the U.S. to guess how often people aged 18-29 in their country had sex in the past four weeks.
A large longitudinal study finds a correlation between a higher IQ, subjective age, and biological age.