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The trans-Tasman and Pacific bubbles will likely be among the first safe international travel zones in the world.
A study uses sugar water experiments to show that hummingbirds can see colors invisible to us.
New research sees dogs checking a North-South axis on their way home.
Without quantum physics, the Sun wouldn’t shine at all. Earth, as we know it, is only teeming with life because of the influence of our Sun. Its light and heat provides […]
Doctors may be missing fatal illnesses because medical textbooks are biased toward white skin.
According to the Standard Model, the leptons and antileptons should all be separate, independent particles from one another. But the three types of neutrino all mix together, indicating they must […]
There are many reasons why this could be true.
A new study enhanced color vision for individuals with the most common type of red-green color blindness.
Big Think's co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
This is what happens when the fringe becomes mainstream.
For northern hemisphere skywatchers, it might just be the century’s best comet so far. Every once in a while, large, icy objects pass through the inner Solar System. C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) […]
Two remarkable etymological maps show twin forces at work throughout human history.
If the idea of freedom bound Camus and Sartre philosophically, then the fight for justice united them politically.
A nasty disease might not be able to travel around much longer.
These alien-like creatures are virtually invisible in the deep sea.