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Bill Moyers once said that a benefit of being a journalist is learning in public. This relies on two important skills: An ability to ask good questions and the willingness […]
It’s absolutely true that atoms are mostly empty space. But removing even that empty space is impossible, and this is why. If you were to take any object in the Universe […]
The NICER experiment, designed to measure neutron stars as never before, just released their first pulsar map, and it’s amazing. After typical supernovae, remnant collapsed cores of matter are left behind. […]
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Man's best friend indeed.
The noted astronomer and author Carl Sagan came up with a famous dictum acronymed ECREE.
Dr. Charles Grob was the first researcher granted FDA approval to study these drugs.
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
How the phenomenon of time dilation became very real to me … at a monastery.
Simple changes to your holiday decorations, gifting or travel can make the festive season more sustainable.
Spoiler: Microbiomes in space!
To create the podcast series "Dolly Parton's America", Jad Abumrad and his producer Shima Oliaee took nine trips into the "Dollyverse"—that complex American multiverse of music and culture that surrounds country singer Dolly Parton. In this episode Jad and host Jason Gots talk about some of the astonishing discoveries he made along the way.
A fascinating mathematical structure exists that goes well beyond our common experience. Could it revolutionize physics? Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is that every particle within it — at […]
Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.
From "if-by-whiskey" to the McNamara fallacy, being able to spot logical missteps is an invaluable skill.
A new study suggests that a device's night mode may damage sleep hygiene even more.
An online tool listed the home of the Black Panther as a trading partner of the United States.
Here's why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
There’s real, straightforward science behind the destruction of an Alderaan-sized planet. In all of science fiction, perhaps the most iconic moment of destruction occurs in 1977’s Star Wars: A New […]
With the realization that overdue charges disproportionately affect access for low-income readers, libraries are reconsidering the value of fees.