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“By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients.”

New research from Big Think+ on what scares your future leaders.

Humans are among the most altruistic species that we’ve studied, due to our alloparental instincts – a trait we evolved into that allows us to care for offspring who are […]

Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.

DESI, by mapping galaxies, has claimed they see evidence for dark energy evolving by getting weaker. But that’s only one interpretation.

Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?

Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.

Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.

If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.

Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?

It took nearly 400,000 years, after the Big Bang, to first form neutral atoms. The imprints from that early time can now be seen everywhere.

The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?

On the largest of cosmic scales, the Universe is expanding. But it isn’t all-or-nothing everywhere, as “collapse” is also part of the story.

Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.

Our Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a “lumpy” Universe be at fault?

The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.

A high-fat diet might trigger inflammation of the hypothalamus.

Clear communication is good for business and life — but compelling communication can take you to another level.

Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of trillions of galaxies within our Universe. Is one of them truly our “twin?”

The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.

Neuroscience supports the notion that mindfulness and meditation should become essential assets in our workspaces.

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

Finding meaning isn’t just personally fulfilling — it’s critical to our brain’s development, explains USC neuroscientist.

AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.

Just 460 light-years away, the closest newborn protostars are forming in the Taurus molecular cloud. Here are JWST’s astonishing insights.

With stars, gas, and dark matter, galaxies come in a great array of sizes. This new one, Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, is the smallest by far.