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Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe became completely dark. The first stars, when they ignited, changed everything. For perhaps 100 million years, the Universe was devoid of stars. The […]

The Lumina Foundation lays out steps for increasing access to quality post-secondary education credentials.

The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.

40% of today’s students work full time while another 40% are over the age of 25. Here’s how to change higher education to fit today’s students.

The Evergreen National Education Prize offers monetary and promotional support to organizations helping low-income youths access education.

Nontraditional education options are on the rise.

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These books helped build the empirical case that life’s origins differ from those described in myths and legends.

Back in 1970, Sister Mary Jucunda wrote NASA, decrying large investments in science. A former Nazi’s legendary response is still relevant.

A new SETI study shows how far the field of technosignatures has come.

Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”

Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.

“The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived.”

New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.

These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.

Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.

Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?

Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?

Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.