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The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
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Author of the Canceling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff explains the current state of free speech in the United States.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Without wormholes, warp drive, or some type of new matter, energy, or physics, everyone is limited by the speed of light. Or are they?
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Big Think recently spoke with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about the surprising consequences of forgoing sleep.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
A more diverse workforce will produce better solutions in fast-changing markets.
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Adam Bryant interviewed over 1,000 CEOs. These are the 3 critical skills to running a company.
Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there's a good chance you have too much insulin.
To solve “addition bias” don’t punish people who subtract — call in the “friction fixers” instead.
Stars are born, live, and die within the spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way. These 19 JWST spirals deliver unprecedented riches.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
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The creative force behind The Vampire Diaries explains how she learned to deal with her insecurities.
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