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Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.
As Beijing encroaches on the territory of the Himalayan kingdom, its ultimate aim is leverage over India.
For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
The “primacy/recency effect” is used by celebrated movie-makers, Broadway composers, and restaurateurs — it can work for you too.
On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.
The veteran economist joins Big Think to unpack the new rules of social media, explain tariffs, and recount his adventures in Albania.
The hunt for extraterrestrial life begins with planets like Earth. But our inhabited Earth once looked very different than Earth does today.
John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.
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The COSMOS-Web has just finalized their release of their full field: larger and deeper than any other JWST program. Here's what's inside.
In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.
For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here's why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.
"The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back."
As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.
From bondage to freedom: Baruch Spinoza’s guide to the rational life.
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.
A comparison of wealth gaps in ancient empires reveals stark differences and lasting consequences.
The Gospels aren’t historical biographies but genre-defining works that blend myth, theology, and a promise of hope.
Many were hoping that JWST would find the first stars of all. Despite many hopeful claims, it hasn't, and probably can't. Here's how we can.
What's the point in fighting a made up monster?
Here in our Universe, time passes at a fixed rate for all observers: one second-per-second. Before the Big Bang, things were very different.
The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.
Experts and Big Think writers recommend their favorite reads for diving deeper into the history and perspectives found in the Book of Books.
The platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.
Dreams of resurrecting lost species didn’t start in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.