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Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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

With undersea cables, AI education, and more, the tech giant is helping create Africa’s “digital decade.”

“Neurotech is not just about the brain,” says Synchron CTO Riki Banerjee, explaining how their tech can help with paralysis, brain diseases, and beyond.

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

To hallucinate means you must first perceive.

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

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

New research challenges old assumptions about the evolution of the human brain.

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

Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.

Nurture your passions instead.

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?”

“We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive.”

NASA astrophysics, which gave us Hubble, JWST, and so much more, faces its greatest budget cut in history. All future missions are at risk.

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

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

There may be unknown particles lurking inside the quantum foam.

One of Apple’s key innovations serves as a psychological breakthrough, as its technology eliminates the isolating feel of headset use.

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

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

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

Fears of celestial collisions — and calculations of their likelihood — go back to the very origins of modern science itself.

“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”