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Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.

Our understanding always will remain incomplete.

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

Zombies aren’t a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.

Gravitational waves are the last signatures that are emitted by merging black holes. What happens when these two phenomena meet in space?

Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?

Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.

From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.

In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.

Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.

Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?

Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.

To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.

To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.

We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.

Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.

In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government uses Newspeak to control thoughts by controlling language. But thoughts do not require language.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?