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A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”

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

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.

If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.

The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.

Giving speech to the speechless.

Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that “remembers” information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.

No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.

Former Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh revitalized the brand with a visionary innovation plan.

An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”

When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.

There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.

Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?

The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional power plant turbines.

AI helped create films like “Jurassic Park” and “A.I.”, so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs.

AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.

Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.

Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.

Is science close to explaining everything about our Universe? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder reacts.

“Stargate” could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.

Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.

Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.

Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all.

The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.

American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.

A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.

An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.