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Utilizing nuclear waste converted to diamonds, this company's batteries will reportedly last thousands of years in some cases.
New research shows that neurons in autistic brains begin to developmentally diverge in early prenatal stages.
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
A new study at Emory Vaccine Center gets into the bone marrow.
Will nefarious players use social media to sway public opinion again this November?
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
Johns Hopkins researchers hope this could lead to new interventions for combating it.
It's a very human behavior—arguably one of the fundamentals that makes us us.
"You dream about these kinds of moments when you're a kid," said lead paleontologist David Schmidt.
A new study examines the under-researched area of water theft around the world.
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
Just because something’s unlikely doesn’t mean that anything’s wrong. In our quest to understand the Universe, theoretical physics is perhaps the most powerful tool we have as far as making […]
The goal of this large-scale study was to provide actionable information on how to avoid depression or decrease depressive symptoms.
More people are looking up panic and anxiety attacks in quarantine.
A new study shows that anxiety has been rapidly increasing among young adults in the U.S. from 2008 to 2018.
Two anthropologists question the chemical imbalance theory of mental health disorders.
Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating. “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a […]
Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
Google's Arts & Culture app just added a suite of prehistoric animals and NASA artifacts that are viewable for free with a smartphone.
On the list of animals at risk are several endangered species.