The Present

Amid such suffering, people need some joy.

Researchers found a common element in the destruction of even the most powerful empires.

Perhaps downhill and cross-country skiers don’t face the fate of potters, typesetters and saddlers, but their situation is certainly unclear.

Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.

Electricity from solar energy is the cheapest it’s ever been, thanks largely to technological improvements and policies that reduce the risk of investing in renewable energy. That’s one of the […]

Can we end world hunger by 2030? Thanks to a new program, the data for it is all there.

Miso Robotics has already served up over 12,000 hamburgers.

Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.

An overfished planet needs a better solution. Fortunately, it’s coming.

Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman explains why America has never achieved true democracy—and how it can.

The market is moving — dive in now.

Societies aren’t just engines of prosperity.

This wide-ranging, 13-course electrical engineering training is your next power move.

A new study shows how poor children are negatively impacted neurologically.

Opportunistic agility is running rampant among hackers and scammers.

A study in the hospitality industry shows the importance of design, including during a pandemic.

While it’s always been a boon to Popeye’s “muskles,” it looks like spinach may also have a role to play in clean future batteries.

A new study collected 500 data points per second. Handwriting won out.

Confirmation bias is baked into the DNA of America, but it may soon be the nation’s undoing.

A non-profit dedicated to science communication offers to connect learners with over 11,000 scientists.

A new interactive documentary “How Normal Am I?” helps reveal the shortcomings of facial recognition technology.

These thought leaders, founders, and entrepreneurs are propelling the kind of future we want to be a part of.

Even kids get that a real leader puts others’ interests first.

Poland has become an increasingly unwelcoming place for the LGBTQ community. Fifty diplomats hope to change that.

What do we want to do with convicted criminals? Penology has several philosophies waiting to answer that question.

We’re in an era of ‘megafires’.

MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.

Would you ever have sex with a robot?

What would happen if you tripled the US population? Matthew Yglesias and moderator Charles Duhigg explore the idea on Big Think Live.

Researchers say that moral self-licensing occurs “because good deeds make people feel secure in their moral self-regard.”