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Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
Interior of a particle physics laboratory showing a complex particle accelerator setup with multiple cables, detectors, and machinery designed to study glueball particles.
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
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The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
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Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
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The most iconic "dark nebula" of all lights up under JWST's infrared gaze. Here's what's newly discovered inside.
Nasa's ingenuity mars helicopter captured mid-flight on the martian surface, surrounded by rocky terrain.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
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Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?
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Beef production is largely responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
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Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
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Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
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“Masculinity” has become synonymous with “toxic.” Journalist Christine Emba explains how that happened, and how it can change.
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Humanity has two giant collisions to thank for its existence, explains biologist Sean B. Carroll.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
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"Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world."
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The fellowship's journey through Middle-earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
A painting of a mythological figure driving a chariot pulled by two white horses through the clouds, draped in a flowing red fabric, symbolizing executive ego.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
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In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
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Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.