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Given enough time, all galaxies will expel their star-forming material and wind up dead. Is this the earliest one, or is it just asleep?
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it's now or never.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it's cemented as the beginning of our Universe.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
JWST has puzzled astronomers by revealing large, bright, massive early galaxies. But the littlest ones pack the greatest cosmic punch.
The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
Here's how belief in a higher power can act like a psychological safety net.
13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth's last wild continent.
Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
Leap day only comes once every four years, including in 2024. But the reason we have it, including when we do and don't, may surprise you.
Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
For now, our Solar System's eight planets are all safe, and relatively stable. Billions of years from now, everything will be different.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
It's time for an honest conversation.
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here's why.