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On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.

A guaranteed basic income is an old solution to a new problem of labor automation.

A new study finds that even one season of football can affect a child’s brain. But soccer isn’t safe, either. 

Will economies and societies continue to innovate, finding new ways of increasing agricultural efficiency or will insufficient resources lead to catastrophes? In a 1958 work, Aldoux Huxley offered an answer.

Ramadan, the Islamic calendar’s month of fasting, begins Saturday evening. This presents a challenge to the many Muslim athletes competing worldwide, most notably in the World Cup.

As NYC police attempt to clear Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, it seems appropriate to reconsider who OWS is and what they want. To me, their goals […]

Alan Boyle, the science editor for MSNBC.com, answers our questions about science, the mainstream media and the fallout of the Chilean earthquake coverage.

If an asteroid hadn’t killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.

In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?

There are some 26 fundamental constants in nature, and their values enable our Universe to exist as it does. But where do they come from?

From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic structures of all, everything that exists depends on two things: charge and mass.

Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.

Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.

Here in our Universe, both normal and dark matter can be measured astrophysically. But only normal matter can collapse. Why is that?

An alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives might hold a solution to relentless workplace stress.

Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.

Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.

Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.

The closest known star that will soon undergo a core-collapse supernova is Betelgeuse, just 640 light-years away. Here’s what we’ll observe.

While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?

How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.

Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.

Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”

The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?