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The race to be first in science journalism is hurting science.
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The impact of giving up is exactly the same as the impact of denying climate change.
The outer edges of a black hole might be “fuzzy” instead of neat and smooth.
If you understand when and how to ask questions, you possess an effective inoculation against charlatans.
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The TRUTHS mission aims to collect extremely precise data on how much radiation Earth absorbs and reflects.
Is information the fifth form of matter?
From talking about Schrödinger’s cat to nuking the South Pole, this decades-old interview shows why Kaku was born to be a science educator.
New research on killer whales may shine a light on the evolutionary power of menopause.
An ongoing experiment aboard the International Space Station aims to find out more about the fundamentals of combustion.
The Mars 2020 rover is set to launch in July of the same year, setting the stage for years and years of science on the Red Planet.
We have arrived: Big Think’s most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.
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Third on the Big Think 2019 countdown reveals this is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.
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Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
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Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
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The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn’t true.
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The noted astronomer and author Carl Sagan came up with a famous dictum acronymed ECREE.
Dr. Charles Grob was the first researcher granted FDA approval to study these drugs.
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
How the phenomenon of time dilation became very real to me … at a monastery.
Our most talked-about video of 2019 features a lesson in nonsensical thinking from none other than Michio Kaku.
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Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.
Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.
By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we’re gambling dangerously with the future.
The axolotl is known to regrow its lower jaw, its retinae, ovaries, kidneys, heart, rudimentary lungs, spinal cord, and large chunks of its brain.
Paying a fee for greenhouse gas emissions may spur a revolution, in terms of corporate behavior, amid the climate crisis.
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The space station sector has exciting potential as more private companies enter the conversation.
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Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.