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Two people are tandem skydiving, falling through the air above a landscape of fields, mountains, and coastline under a clear sky.
Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?
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From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn't.
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The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
A new all-time record! JWST's discovery of JADES-GS-z14-0 pushes the earliest galaxy ever seen to just 290 million years after the Big Bang.
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While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.
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Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
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A reader asks whether we have an ethical responsibility to always debate bad beliefs, especially those that come from our elders.
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The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
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If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you'll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn't the Big Bang become one?
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A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
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33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question "Is life computable?"
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Without authenticity, curiosity, and risk-taking we get stuck in the mud — here’s how to make space for resilient progress.
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The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?
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Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
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Big Think interviews Angie Westbrock, CEO of Standard AI, to learn the secrets of adapting to the winds of change.
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The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value. 
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How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
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Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.
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It's 2024, and we still only know of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model: nothing more. But these 8 unanswered questions remain.
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Because of their large and unfriendly neighbor to the east, the Baltics would rather be Scandinavian.