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Claims of a sudden infestation appear unfounded.

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.

If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.

Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.

Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece’s brightest minds.

In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.

Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?

Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.

Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.

To thrive in a rapidly changing future, we will need adaptable and diverse skill sets. Here’s where to look.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”

In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.

There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.

The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.

Pleasure, virtue, and doubt are necessary, but each is insufficient on its own.

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the “first” cause must be God. Is that valid?

Today’s technology presents unique challenges for social awareness and relationship management at work, making emotional intelligence all the more critical.

“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.

Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.

For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.

For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.

Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.

While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?

A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.

Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don’t fear technology but each other.

“Ultimately, the choice rests with each individual: whether to take the convenient route of allowing AI to handle our critical thinking, or to preserve this essential cognitive process for ourselves.”

AR promises us a magical world.