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Scientists are finding that loneliness has real medical consequences, and the brain sees it as pain.
Scarcely noticed in the Eden story, there lurk fruitful scientific ideas about why biology generated morality.
Four-year research concludes there’s a new organ inside the body, creating a new field of science.
The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.
Cheetahs and giraffes have been placed on the conservation “red list” due to collapsing populations.
Researchers find more evidence of the link between social media use by young adults and depression.
CERN researchers make a major step in understanding antimatter by trapping antihydrogen atoms and controlling them with lasers.
Physicist Erik Verlinde’s theory successfully predicts the distribution of gravity around 33,000+ galaxies without relying on unobserved “dark matter”.
There is censorship in science, admits Bill Nye – but not nearly as much as there should be.
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A 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail with feathers was examined in a new study by an international team of researchers.
A Harvard University study of women finds a link between optimism and risks of dying from a number of diseases.
Researchers find the most common superstitions in the United States, breaking them down by gender, age and part of the country.
Scientists propose an unexpected location for extraterrestrial life.
Few see how strongly science’s preferred languages shape and limit the thinking of many experts.
Climate change is a topic that’s politically charged rather than scientifically charged. Bill Nye offers tips for how those on the side of science can begin to have meaningful conversations with skeptics.
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As president, Donald Trump is uniquely positioned to bring America back to the Moon.
A theoretical physicist proposes a new way to think about gravity and dark matter.
A recent study sheds light on why we get “food coma” and what foods to avoid.
New research shows how studying music helps the brain create new connections.
A study by University of Toronto psychologists reveals how to have a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.
It takes “deliberate practice,” though, to increase your odds of attaining success.
Through an incredible anecdote, Earl Lewis demonstrates why STEM can’t do it alone. Scientists and humanists needs each other, and institutions have a responsibility to continue to fund and nurture the humanities.
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A recent study reflects that men view their female friends differently than women view their male friends – but by a pretty insignificant margin.
Russian researchers unearth over 500 artifacts from a secret Nazi base in the Arctic.
Scientists find a surprising relationship between yawning and brain size.
Don’t believe every science study you read, because sometimes not even their authors believe them. Here are the issues corrupting good, honest science – and how to fix them.
UCLA researchers successfully use a new technique to “wake up” a patient after coma.
Look who went and got himself a talk show. Big Think’s regular contributor Bill Nye will be on Netflix in 2017!