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quantum gravity
Physicists just can't leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.
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One MIT-trained poet spent nine months trying to find out.
Hands sifting through a collection of black and white photographs against an abstract artistic backdrop, each image reminiscent of treatments for Alzheimer's.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
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Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
Phases of a partial lunar eclipse progression against a dark sky during the penumbral eclipse.
The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th's total eclipse will bring.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
A tailless human from a rope.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
A character in a starfleet uniform with a distinctive ridged forehead, who speaks invented languages, stands against a backdrop of stars.
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.
A group of cult members dressed in white participating in an outdoor gathering or ceremony under a partly cloudy sky.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
A man with a beard embodying the Protestant work ethic.
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
anitmatter annihilation
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
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Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It's often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.
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AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
black hole hit Earth
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
A woman, channeling her best ai humor, is holding a microphone in front of a purple background.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
A photo capturing the memory of a woman standing in front of a body of water.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.
An image of a pelican with its feet in the water, capturing the essence of Stanford Duck Syndrome.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
An illustration of a tall building featuring new office concepts.
Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?