If you’ve ever gazed up at a dark and clear night sky, you might feel the same thing that I do each and every time: a feeling that it’s beckoning us and drawing us in to explore and wonder wh...
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/unsurprising-non-detection-intelligent-aliens/
Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Mar...
There is a certain kind of story about nature and our place in it that says all we experience, all we feel, is nothing but neural circuity. According to one thought experiment, if I were a smart ...
https://bigthink.com/13-8/the-key-problem-with-the-brain-in-a-vat-thought-experiment/
It was a long shot to trust the northern New England weather in early April, especially after a strange winter of warm spells followed by massive snowstorms. But hundreds of thousands of people g...
https://bigthink.com/13-8/eclipse-what-it-tells-us-about-earth/
When it comes to the Universe, there are some things we can be confident are out there based on what we observe. We know that the Universe was hotter, denser, and more uniform in the distant past...
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/photons-mass-dark-matter/
Promising personalized cancer vaccines were a recurring theme at the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, earlier this month. A multitude of compani...
In 1796, President George Washington lambasted political parties for allowing “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” to “subvert the power of the people.” His indictment seems bruta...
Using lasers and metal powder, Australian scientists have created a super strong, super lightweight new “metamaterial” — but they got the idea for this sci fi-sounding creation from plants....
At roughly 11:19 a.m. on April 20, 1999, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold emerged from their vehicles in the parking lots of Columbine High School. Clad in black trench coats...
> I have a friend at work; she’s kind of a friend, but only ever a > “work friend.” We have lunch together and get along, but nothing > more. Lately, she’s s...
https://bigthink.com/thinking/everyday-philosophy-is-there-anything-wrong-with-trauma-dumping/