Philosophers love to use thought experiments, here are seven of the most useful for making you reflect on everything around you.

On April 20, Nintendo will release Labo, a new gaming system that tasks kids with creating interactive games with cardboard cutouts and the Nintendo Switch.

The answer is not only telling of our biology but that of other organisms as well.

The fascinating HBO documentary 'Elvis Presley: The Searcher' looks at Elvis’s practice of re-making black hits for his white audience. Was it cultural appropriation or just love of the material?

For 55 hours, not a speck of coal was used to toast crumpets in England. How did the U.K. give up the dirtiest fossil fuel?

NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller is coming back to Big Think to answer YOUR questions! Here's all you need to know to submit your science-related inquiries.

With tax season in full swing, how much money can you get back from the government? Would it be fairer if everyone paid the same rate?

Scientists are developing liquid metal or "electric blood" that can move and form 2D shapes. This may revolutionize the field of soft robotics.

In the wake of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, another data firm was discovered to have amassed similar user profiles of millions of people.

A little peek into our past reveals tantalizing details.

In her new memoir, Duke Divinity School professor Kate Bowler opens up about battling Stage IV cancer.

A new paper explores why women gossip about each other, and identifies some key factors that influence how women choose gossiping targets.

After the wrongful arrest of two black men, the coffee shop chain will be closing down for an afternoon in order to educate up to 175,000 employees on racial bias in the workplace.

Sometimes conspiracy theories turn out to be true, like the one about how the CIA tried to use LSD to find a mind-control drug.

It's not a solution yet, but perhaps the start of one.

Rapper Meek Mill is stuck in jail, caught in the U.S. justice system’s perpetual probation trap that keeps a disproportionate number of black people in America incarcerated.

A longtime debate over Buddhism's religiosity has drawn a line between metaphysics and action.

The 'Great Polish Map of Scotland' is the coolest map story you've never heard of.

Churches and religious organizations are tax-exempt. Should they continue to get such a benefit?

The programs are long and intense, the creativity and relationships aspect of the vocation has been eroded, there is pervasive negativity in the media, and comparatively poor salary and working conditions.