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Would your dog, cat, or other pet eat you if you died? The truth about if — and how soon — our animal friends start to see us in a different light.
How did our world come to be ruled by a view of human nature that contradicts the testimony of much of history, and the bulk of the arts, and your daily experience? Mathoholics are to blame.
Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.
What - if anything - makes metaphysics still relevant? And what's the relationship between science and metaphysics?
A new study published in Nature shows just how quick relief is possible with ketamine.
Quartz has analyzed 100,000 drawings to see if there are cultural differences in the way people draw basic shapes.
The Omega Nebula, the Eagle Nebula and Sharpless 2–54 all line up in space. Here’s a never-before-seen view of them all together! “It shows you exactly how a star is […]
Every week, we do a little round-up of comments from the Big Think Facebook. Here's some of the more intriguing ones of the week.
The political and economic ideas of socialism are coming back into fashion.
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Gene editing tool CRISPR could soon be lifting a page straight out of a Michael Crichton novel.
A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.
A new podcast, to cover an incredible story of why we can exist at all. “Already in my original paper I stressed the circumstance that I was unable to give a […]
Scientists film a closeup of DNA replication for the first time, leading to unexpected observations.
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You have three types of brain inside your brain. And they're all fighting for dominance.
For the Sgt. Pepper 50th anniversary remix, good intentions and modern technology revitalize a classic album.
The iconic physicist warns that we’d better find another planet in the next 100 years, or humanity is screwed.
Perhaps it is more doable now than when it was first proposed, back in the early 1980s
How the Universe’s expansion rate continues to baffle us. “In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.” -Henry Miller It’s the most fundamental law of special […]
The smart money is still on LIGO, but there sure looks like something funny is happening if the new group is correct. This article was contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine […]
Orcas are trailing Alaskan fishermen and taking their halibut and black-cod catches.