The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th's total eclipse will bring.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
Harvard has conducted an 85-year-long study on what makes humans happy. Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger explains what they found.
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Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It's often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Pathologically busy people clamoring for happiness. Founder of HATCH Monica Parker explains how we can do so much better than that.
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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
Philosophy isn't stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
The former Nintendo president has become synonymous with the backlash against layoffs — because, like a great leader, he focused on lifting people.
Given enough time, all galaxies will expel their star-forming material and wind up dead. Is this the earliest one, or is it just asleep?
People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
Galaxies don't simply feed their central supermassive black holes, but the activity generated inside affects the entire galaxy and more.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
When all your teammates fall for "the emperor's new clothes," the results can be disastrous — here's how to bust the groupthink.
Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it's now or never.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?