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Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.

The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.

Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.

All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang long ago. The Universe was never empty, not even before that.

A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.

Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the “oinker diet.”

From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.

From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.

Einstein’s most famous equation is E = mc², which describes the rest mass energy inherent to particles. But motion matters for energy, too.

It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.

With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era Lysenkoism.

In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.

Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.

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

The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.

Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.

Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?

Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?

Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.

A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.