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The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.

About 51 million people around the world suffer from schizophrenia, yet half of the general public doesn’t understand what schizophrenia really is

Though it looks promising, there are some issues to work out before it becomes widespread.   

The robot band cannot replicate the punk attitude of the Ramones or the soulfulness of B.B. King. Yet.

A firestorm of speculation has been generated by a notice from NASA announcing a major discovery in the field of astrobiology, to be released today at 2 p.m. According to […]

“These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that’s a problem.”

You got your promotion — but managing the pressure inherent to your elevated role is now a crucial part of your job.

Professional sport is a hotbed of “performance anxiety” — and to start managing pressure in all settings, we need to properly define it.

Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.

Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.

The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.

Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

The best autonomous car may be one you don’t even need to own.

Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?

Have you ever noticed how many things you interact with but can’t name? So did we.

Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.

What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.

Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.

How to say, “In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce” and get away with it.

Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist’s understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?

The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.

The benefits of the psychedelic seem to last long after the trip wears off.

Is immortality a tantalizing possibility or a philosophical paradox?