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An under-5-minute explanation of how you make a particle accelerators.
Study reveals that most of us want more rest and would rather rest alone.
In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre showed how warp drive could be made real within General Relativity. What does that imply? “Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new […]
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week's episode of Think Again - a Big Think podcast, celebrity chef Alton Brown and host Jason Gots talk about fire, their mutual childhood lust for the Betty Crocker Easy-Bake Oven and how everything worth doing might get you killed.
Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.
Memes have the potential to make people laugh, but when they're used for evil?
Forget multi-vitamins, pick up a happy spouse instead. This study suggests the enormous upward effect of having a partner who has a happy nature.
A baby is born from a controversial procedure that combines DNA from 3 people.
There are strict scientific standards a new ‘claimed discovery’ needs to meet. Has cold fusion gotten there? “Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. …because the […]
Neuroscience suggests that we have limited free will, but there is a model of freedom that even neuroscientists support; "free won't".
A recent report covered in Runner's World says the sweet spot might just be forty miles a week.
"Plan your family on the go," a new campaign says. The London Sperm Bank thinks women might appreciate selecting a sperm donor the way they find a date on the hook-up app Tinder.
A Yale study finds implicit racial bias in a study of 132 white and black preschool educators, but in different ways.
So how would you like your prescription? A dragon? Tiger? Something tribal maybe?
And can we even agree on the definition of ‘nothingness’? “Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge […]
Elon Musk has a pretty ambitious plan to get humans to live on Mars in 40 years. Here's the tech that'll make that happen.
More Americans now use opioids than tobacco, while pro-painkiller lobbies outspend opposition 200 to 1.
We often hear rhetoric comparing certain political leaders and moments to Fascism. But, is that accurate? Perhaps more importantly, is that a good thing?
Prediction is reinventing industries and running the world. More and more, predictive analytics drives commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and law enforcement.