“These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that’s a problem.”
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Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!
“You need to run towards the pain and darkness and not away from it. I think the best leaders always run towards the darkness. They always run towards a problem.”
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Fears of celestial collisions — and calculations of their likelihood — go back to the very origins of modern science itself.
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
A new SETI study shows how far the field of technosignatures has come.
Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.
The story of how the world high jump record was smashed in 1968 contains golden lessons for business and innovation.
After decades of drug and alcohol abuse, the chef and television personality labeled himself as an ‘irredeemable human being.’ Everything changed when he found the courage to ask for help.
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The Ring Nebula, a bright, circular planetary nebula, is created by a dying Sun-like star. After centuries, we finally know its true shape.
Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of trillions of galaxies within our Universe. Is one of them truly our “twin?”
How black and white is your thinking?
There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.
With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.
If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
The secret sauce is the real world.
Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.
Australia’s AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
Does Platonic love actually exist?
Within our observable Universe, there’s only one Earth and one “you.” But in a vast multiverse, so much more becomes possible.
Desire is like a drug. But is an addict always an addict?
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. “First contact” still remains elusive.
The largest particle accelerator and collider ever built is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Why not go much, much bigger?
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
In “Not Born Yesterday,” author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.