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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 […]

“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.

Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”

Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.

The robot can drive heavy steal beams into the ground at a rate of 1 per 73 seconds, which will help expedite solar farm construction.

A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.

End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.

3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.

Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.

Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.

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.