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For years and over three separate experiments, "lepton universality" appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.

In the spirit of maintaining an open mind, and in an attempt to purge myself of past prejudices, I will be re-reading The Great Gatsby this weekend.   

Google Glass. Life Extension. Life Extinction. These are among the brainiest memes included in the inaugural post of our new blog, Mind Memes, which offers quick reads on the Internet […]

There are a lot of cool posts on BIG THINK today. Austin Allen’s on stuff the great literary critic Harold Bloom declared dead is a kind of an ironic appreciation.  The […]

Like me, many readers were probably saddened by the news last week that Borders is shutting all of its remaining outlets.  In comparison to Barnes Noble, I often found Borders […]

Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.

When you hold yourself financially accountable, you’re likely to gain more than just some extra money.

Social isolation, back pain, and screen fatigue getting you down?

In 200 years, the mortality rate for children under the age of five (per 1,000 live births) has dropped from 40% to 3.7%.

Meet the power plant of the future.

Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.

A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

It has been 50 years since an American has claimed the title of World Chess Champion. Will it ever happen again?

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.

Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.

All the latest titles from the experts at MIT.

If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.

Metal really does sometimes stick to some people’s skin. Here’s the science of why. Every once in a while, a claim comes along that wildly challenges the mainstream scientific narrative. These […]

Engineered immune cells have prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice.

This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.

Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?

Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.

Sometimes, moral lessons can be learned from blowing away zombies.

And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]

Learn how to practice "self-indifference."

After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.

How to deal with "epistemic exhaustion."

Johns Hopkins researchers hope this could lead to new interventions for combating it.

The virus is unlike anything many people have ever experienced.

An information war is being waged.