There’s a limit to how large planets can be, and it’s only about double the radius of Jupiter. At least, so far.
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“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
Israel looks to deploy its “Iron Beam” air-defense system within the year.
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The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
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As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it’s done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
Financial setbacks are more common than you might think.
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
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We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.
Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there’s a bright side.