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The tonal Native American language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.

Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.

From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.

A growing body of research suggests that optimism plays a significant role in promoting both physical and mental well-being.

Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it’s now or never.

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

Carl Jung was one such person.

For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?

Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.

A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.

Named “Supernova H0pe,” it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.

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

Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.

Since the 1980s, engineered monoclonal antibodies have been knocking out invading germs. Sperm may be next.

Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.

Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.

AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.

In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.

A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.

Dive into a realm where time, space, and even reality itself are put into question.

Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.

Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”

MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.