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While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
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"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."
Our Universe doesn't just expand and cool, but the expansion itself is accelerating. Can stars form under such structure-erasing conditions?
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“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.
Earth orbits the Sun while spinning on its tilted axis, with two annual occasions marking that maximal tilt. That's where solstices arise.
By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
The Department of Energy's newest mission seeks to make a unified AI platform across all national labs. Will it help US science, or kill it?
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“The problem with cognitive scripts is when we use them to make more important decisions in our lives, we let our choices be driven by those stories that we have internalized that tell us how we're supposed to behave in a certain situation.”
AI “eval” outfit Mercor is one of the fastest growing companies in history. But will their rocket run out of fuel? Big Think investigates.
Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.
Our Standard Model of the Universe, for both particle physics and cosmology, remains intact for now. When will its foundations crack?
To win over any audience you need to master “cut-through” — former TV and film actor Dominic Colenso wants to give you the secret sauce.
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David S. Goyer explains how paying attention to mystery, and not brushing it aside, became the foundation for the way he builds stories, characters, and worlds.
With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy's future comes into sharp, exciting focus.
It takes a wide variety of processes in the Universe to make all the elements that populate space today. We're still discovering new ones!
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.