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Just as business travelers essentially subsidize other travelers by paying the highest rates for commercial airfare, these celebrity boondoggles in space are funding the growth of NewSpace. And all humanity could benefit.
This image, courtesy of Reporters Without Borders, rates countries based on the state of freedom of the press.
A procedure makes eating sollid food so painful that dieters will be forced to stick with a liquid diet.
Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes joined us for a Google+ hangout to discuss ideas from her Big Think Mentor workshop of the same name.
In about 15 years we'll be able to indefinitely extend life, says futurist Ray Kurzweil in a special appearance in the electro House musician Steve Aoki's new video "Singularity."
Is DNA sampling just a 21st century version of fingerprinting, or a violation of our rights?
You can learn powerful habits of mind from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
On the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, creative protests are popping up around the Web as well as on the ground in mainland China.
A German drone narrowly missing a collision with an Afghan commercial aircraft carrying 100 passengers.
Since late April, the not-for-profit organization, Mars One, has been flooded with applications for a one-way ticket to colonize Mars in 2023.
Using raw images from NASA's website, space nerd Karl Sanford constructed this short time-lapse video that features highlights of the Curiosity Rover's visit to Mars.
The human brain is a masterpiece of design, which enables us to focus very deeply on a subject.
It was actually "physics envy" that got us in trouble in the first place.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be passing Earth today at 4:59 p.m. Eastern, at a distance of 3.6 million miles, or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Who says Russian oligarchs have bad taste? Dmitri Rybolovlev bought Donald Trump's 33,000-square-foot Palm Beach mansion for $85 million in 2008, and the fertilizer mogul is now planning to tear it down.
The Miami-Dade Police have some explaining to do after a cell phone camera captured officers assaulting an unarmed 14-year old named Tremaine McMillan.
If you own Tesla's Model S electric car, you can travel for free along well-traveled highways in North America by accessing strategically placed supercharge stations.
YouTube user styropyro, aka, The DIY Laser Guy, has made a DIY lightsaber that can burn through a variety of objects.
Manhattanhedge is a two-day event when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid.