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Less local newspapers are making the populace more uninformed.
The key to Finland's success is to view education not as a privilege, but a right.
About 3.8 billion years ago, the inner planets were bombarded with a cataclysm of asteroids. Could Planet V have been the cause?
The controversial protest tactic has a checkered history.
Climate change is a dire threat, perhaps it is time to put the people who created and denied the problem on trial?
First contact movies had their Golden Age in 1980s America – now they're going global.
Experts say global warming is no longer some future worry. It's already here.
Despite tens of millions of dollars pouring into new technologies, a 'clean' burger remains elusive.
When two different techniques give two different results, either someone is wrong, or something incredible is happening. Imagine you were a scientist attempting to measure some property of the Universe. […]
A recent test shows SpaceX's Raptor engine is powerful enough to lift Starship and Super Heavy into space.
You won't notice much of a difference unless you're north of the 55th parallel, though.
In Shane Snow’s Big Think+ video, “Harness Your Team's Mental Toolkit,” he begins by asserting that “two heads are better than one” is a lie. Also — and as long […]
Scientists are highly skeptical, but such “cosmic wanderlust" isn't a bad thing.
The counterintuitive findings bode well for stoners, but more research is needed.
The spike in measles cases stems from three outbreaks in Washington and New York.
A new study claims that dark energy is changing with time. Here’s what it would mean, if true. For the past generation, we’ve recognized that our Universe is a particularly dark […]
If a scientific study was conducted unethically, should publishers retract it?
The Canadian professor takes issue with blocking free speech, but is he part of the problem?
A network of devices called MERMAIDs is taking seismographs where they've never been.