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A dog’s breed isn’t as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.

Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.

The automated McDonald’s has a staff comparable to other stores. But the crew members are all focused on making and packaging orders instead of delivering them.

Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?

Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!

According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.

From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.

Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits

After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.

Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?

“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven’t seen that artist yet.”

Whatever your length of service in the top role, this tool-box will help you conquer adversity — and thrive.

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.

Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.

Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.

A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.

“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”

Roughly half the world population, including in America, has insufficient levels of vitamin D. UV irradiated mushrooms can help.

Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.

The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker? 

One of Apple’s key innovations serves as a psychological breakthrough, as its technology eliminates the isolating feel of headset use.

It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.

Our concept of “failure” is way too narrow.

“The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived.”