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Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.

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

That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.

A prolonged strike could cost the economy between $500 million to $4.5 billion per day.

Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.

In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.

Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.

Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect.

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.

He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he’s a peerless visionary.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

The brain implant lets her talk four times faster than the previous record.

Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.

The future belongs to complexity.

Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.

Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.

Galaxies don’t simply feed their central supermassive black holes, but the activity generated inside affects the entire galaxy and more.

In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.

A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI’s impact on jobs.

The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.

Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.

And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.

Astronomer Adam Frank reflects on some responses to his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.

Smart glasses have flopped before. AI could finally make them mainstream.

Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.