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It can sometimes feel like career progress is beyond your control. This can be especially acute if you are a young professional or entering a new industry. You’re too inexperienced, […]
A curated list of must-watch films from Big Think readers.
A new survey also found that women executives believe imposter syndrome to be common among women in corporate America.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.
When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more.
We’re still not sure what the ultimate question is. Here are 5 excellent candidates. One of the most amusing stories in all of science fiction is Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s […]
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
Malignant discrimination remains a problem in society, but it’s one we’ve improved upon compared to its historic highs—or, rather, lows. Interracial marriage, to pick one example of progress, used to […]
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
There’s a flowchart if you aren’t sure. It’s a situation that comes up all too frequently: an expert in their field publicly states a conclusion that is thoroughly accepted by the […]
A deeper appreciation for science and less unnecessary spending could be in our future.
It happened more than once, and needed to. Here’s why. If there’s one thing you can be certain about when it comes to outer space, it’s that it’s transparent, not opaque, […]
Both made monumental contributions that were far ahead of their time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea that the Universe was dominated not by normal matter but rather by dark […]
What is human dignity? Here’s a primer, told through 200 years of great essays, lectures, and novels.
A new study discovers how blazars shoot out jets of radiation towards Earth.
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
Although most of the Universe’s mass is dark matter, which gravitates just as well as normal matter, it still can’t make black holes.
Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]
More than a century after the end of hostilities in 1918, some battlefields of WWI are still deadly enough to kill you.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
The microbes that eventually produced the planet’s oxygen had to breathe something, after all.
How a controversial study on psychic powers caused a revolution in psychology research.
Think you can solve it? One mathematician has already offered about $1,000 and a bottle of champagne to whoever cracks it first.
Science doesn’t exist in a cultural and existential vacuum and its teaching shouldn’t either.
Yet, if they only obey the rules that we know, there’s no way to explain why. One of the greatest puzzles in all of physics is that the laws of nature — as […]
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]