Vegan burgers make men feel fuller than beef, study finds

We might soon see more carnivores go meatless. | Continue reading


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Vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health, researchers say

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America pretends technology wins wars

Hollywood's notions of future wars may be nothing like the real ones. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

Scientist's accidental discovery makes coral grow 40x faster

The news has not been encouraging as of late if you are one to pay attention to either climate change or The Great Barrier Reef: coral reefs are an incubator of the ocean's ecosystem. They account for less than 1% of the ocean and yet manage to provide food and shelter to over on … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

A.I. is a big fat lie

The thing is, "artificial intelligence" itself is a lie. Just evoking that buzzword automatically insinuates that technological advancement is making its way toward the ability to reason like people. To gain humanlike "common sense." That's a powerful brand. But it's an empty pro … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

China is transforming Africa into the next 'factory of the world'

China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it's leaving many in the global community concerned as to why. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

Reasons to be optimistic in 2019

Even the optimists among us would have to admit 2018 was a challenging year. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

Elon Musk: Moving to Mars would cost about $200,000

The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won't work if it's wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

Want to know what mice in labs are saying? Try DeepSqueak

A breakthrough app for ultrasonic squeak analysis. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

How kugelblitz black holes could power future spacecraft

Here's the recipe to make a black hole: start with a sizeable amount of hydrogen, enough to make a star about 25 times the mass of the sun. That hydrogen will begin burning into helium. Let the star cook for a few million years, and it'll start to run out of hydrogen to burn. The … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

4 Things That Currently Break the Speed of Light Barrier

One frequent question I get is whether we can break the light barrier—because unless we can break the light barrier, the distant stars will always be unreachable. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

How augmented reality will make street art come to life

A moving mural by street artist Eduardo Kobra is one of the first fruits of a revolution about to take the art world by storm. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens

The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 5 years ago

From 1990 to 2016, dementia has more than doubled

About a quarter of victims' lost time was avoidable | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

A new study proves parachutes are useless

A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame? | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Why modern men are losing their testosterone

Research has shown that men today have less testosterone than they used to. What's happening? | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Smart dress groped 157 times in under 4 hours

Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Scientist's accidental discovery makes coral grow 40x faster

There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Why being busy is a modern sickness

We have to practice doing nothing more often. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Peter Thiel: What Happened to Innovation?

Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

When A.I. does what you say, not what you mean

A.I. makes a lot of mistakes. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Our memory comes from an ancient virus, neuroscientists say

This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Hungarian scientists argue Earth has more than one moon

Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Three paralyzed men are walking again thanks to modified spinal implants

Spinal implants deliver intermittent bursts to stimulate movement. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Why the number 137 is one of the greatest mysteries in physics

Famous physicists like Richard Feynman think 137 holds the answers to the Universe. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Leonardo da Vinci could visually flip between dimensions, neuroscientist claims

A neuroscientist argues that Da Vicni shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

A new study delivers the dark financial reality of cancer. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Doctors in Scotland can now prescribe nature to their patients

Doctors in Shetland can now prescribe a walk in natureIt's believed to be the first program of its kind in the U.K.The health benefits of engaging with nature are numerous. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

New controversial theory: Past, present, future exist simultaneously

Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Single-atom data storage has just been figured out

Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

“No one should be doing the ketogenic diet”

Ketosis is known to work wonders in terms of short-term weight loss. But what about the diet’s effects over the long term? | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

In 1921, Canada developed a secret plan to invade the U.S

America's fear of an Anglo-Japanese alliance led Canada to worry about a U.S. attack - and in the end, devise a scheme for a 'pre-emptive invasion' of its southern neighbour | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

The Vatican is both the 4th roundest and 2nd most rectangular country

Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world's roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Study: women peak in attractiveness at 18, men peak at 50

A new study used massive amounts of data from an online dating service to explore what makes someone desirable, and how people go about attracting partners online. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

How the Kessler Syndrome can end all space exploration and destroy modern life

An increasingly likely catastrophe can cause major disruptions in space flight and our daily lives. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Two MIT students just solved Richard Feynman’s famed physics puzzle

Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

In 1973, an MIT computer model predicted a global collapse starting in 2020

An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

What if AI is coming for jobs faster than we thought? – Big Think

The pool of things that "AI Can't Do" appears to be steadily shrinking. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

How China's ‘social credit score’ will punish and reward citizens

By 2020, China plans to assign each of its 1.4 billion citizens a “social credit score” that could determine what certain people are allowed to do. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Why Bertrand Russell Was Not a Christian

It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

34 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America

A chilling interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

A new telescope shows the center of the Milky Way in dazzling, fiery detail

MeerKAT is producing brilliant images of the super massive black hole that is at our galaxy’s center. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

A new type of diamond is designed for quantum qubits

Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

23 responses to 23 awful statements made to childfree people | Big Think

There appears to be a bizarre stigma around people – especially women – who voluntarily decide not to procreate. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Birth order doesn't affect personality, but it does affect intelligence | Big Think

Younger siblings generally have a lower IQ than their older brothers and sisters, according to three large national surveys from the US, UK, and Germany. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Supercomputer Aurora 21 will map the human brain, starting in 2021

Aurora 21 will help the US keep pace among the other nations who own the fastest supercomputers. Scientists plan on using it to map the connectome of the human brain. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago

Study confirms lifting weights reduces depression

A review of 33 trials confirms that loading your body does your brain good. | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 6 years ago