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It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
Claims circulating on the Internet — some from dentists’ websites — suggest toothpaste isn’t necessary for dental health. Is that true?
Here’s the thorny reality behind psychedelics’ ability to unearth buried memories.
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
Our desire for recognition at work can lead to perilous ends.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
There are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.
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This is your brain on work.
Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.
Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
The discovery suggests that the “Boring Billion” period of evolution on Earth wasn’t so boring after all.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
“Kids are always asking two questions of parents: ‘Am I safe?’ and ‘Am I real?'”
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Big Think spoke to the author of “The 5 Love Languages” about the popular relationship theory — and its lack of scientific support.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Earth wasn’t created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.