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Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.

Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.

How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?

Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.

It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.

With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.

And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.

Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.

To advance the gender-affirming healthcare of all those who transition, we must also understand the nature and causes of those who detransition.

Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.

Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.

Six hundred years in the history of trousers.

Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.

Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.

A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.

Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas.

Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.

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

Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.

Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.

“I need to think about the future. Will you help me?”

When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.

In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.

IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.

It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.

Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.

Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?

The Shirky Principle states that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.