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Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Nearly 50 years ago, Klaus Biemann, a principal investigator for NASA’s Viking Mars landing mission, announced that, after careful study of data collected by the landers’ onboard instruments, they had detected no organic compounds on the Martian surface. …

Ram Every year, the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s show in Las Vegas attracts a wide range of custom builds and plenty of concept cars built by automakers hoping to get their hands on a few of those sweet enthusiast dollars. Sometimes you get a completely off-the-wall build that looks cool but will obviously …

Kelli Gehrke, 36, had been in cardiac arrest for seven minutes when a mobile team of doctors and specialists flown in from Harborview Medical Center connected her to a life-saving machine that bypassed her failing heart and lungs. Three days earlier, Kelli Gehrke had traveled with her husband Chris Gehrke from their home in Lacey, Washington, to Madigan Army Medical …

Like the guard injured during the Worcester Art Museum robbery, security employees rarely carried arms – and, as portrayed mockingly in The Mastermind, they could often be dozy “retirees” or “acid heads”, as Reichardt says, with limited training. She adds: “Museums used to have these cool circular drives out front, which made the getaway pretty handy.” And, while the film …

Food trends come and go, as do restaurants. Many we grew up on, and certainly ones our parents remember, are now closed down and defunct — existing only as memories. Some retro relics though, are surprisingly still somehow standing — even ones you would have sworn were long gone. One example is PoFolks, a moderately popular spot in the ’70s and ’80s …

Food trends come and go, as do restaurants. Many we grew up on, and certainly ones our parents remember, are now closed down and defunct — existing only as memories. Some retro relics though, are surprisingly still somehow standing — even ones you would have sworn were long gone. One example is PoFolks, a moderately popular …

Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio on stage at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in March. Courtesy of CNBC Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said investors should allocate as much as 15% of their portfolios to gold even as the precious metal surged to an all-time high above $4,000 an ounce. “Gold is a very excellent diversifier in the portfolio,” Dalio said Tuesday at …

‘The 47-year-old marvel’: How engineers are keeping a 1970s spacecraft alive in interstellar space  WION Voyager 1 sends back a signal that changes everything — a discovery so big, even NASA didn’t expect it  leravi.org NASA has made it official—Voyager detects a “wall of fire” reaching temperatures of up to 90,000°F beyond the solar system  El Adelantado de Segovia ‘The Hydrogen Wall’: Has …

In the 1970s, behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun created what looked like paradise—for mice. There was no hunger, no predators, and no disease. Yet within a few years, every mouse was dead. The experiment, known as Universe 25, has become one of the most disturbing studies in behavioral science, and some believe it carries unsettling lessons for the future of …