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The old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here’s a strategy for resilience.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.

Resilience training can be instrumental in helping employees recover from difficulties and embrace change in the workplace.

Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.

One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

A series of recent studies found that people with healthy levels of vitamin D were less likely to contract COVID-19 and suffer severe complications from it.

All the latest titles from the experts at MIT.

Archaeologists suggest this may have been the Americas’ “oldest hotel.”

Sometimes not looking forward to something helps you get it done.

Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?

Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.

Quick! There’s a runaway train on the tracks. Some dastardly evildoer has knocked the driver out cold and tied five people to the tracks ahead. The train is barreling down […]

To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.

 The first response to big, bad news is likely to be widespread panic — it’s human nature. Yet, says risk communication expert David Ropeik, you can actually strengthen a team’s […]

Animal extinction is, after all, inevitable in the natural world — some have even called it the “engine of evolution”. So why should extinction matter to us?

Blockchain technology could help alleviate the struggles of asylum seekers who are many times left in the wake of political fights.

Trying to understand California aflame.

The first component of a planned “space kingdom” has been launched into orbit.

If December’s best natural sky show seems to get better every year, it isn’t your imagination. It’s science, and it’s spectacular! Every year, the Earth travels some 940 million kilometers […]

NASA is close to testing its next-generation nuclear fission reactors that would power a Mars colony and propel space exploration.

The jawbone scanned in the study is the oldest hominin fossil ever found.  

Why do people believe fake news? It’s not because it gets shared all over Facebook; it’s because they don’t trust mainstream news. And Snopes agrees with them. 

Sebastian Junger takes a big-picture look at depression, PTSD, and the importance of the tribe in his new book.

If a politician’s broken promises ever broke your heart, Beethoven knew how you feel.

Are comets and asteroids periodic, and are we due? “Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no […]

The glorious meteor shower peaking this week is the most consistent, year after year. Here’s why. “Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, […]

Imagine standing in a bare room in which a small, 4-billion-year-old rock hangs from the ceiling by a thin wire as three vocalists whistle and breathe on it to make it swing. For some people, such a scenario might be the nightmare version of contemporary art run amok, so far “out there” that it’s never coming back. 

Building and sustaining a strong office culture requires frequent assessments of the emotional climate. Keeping tabs on how your employees feel (and fixing things when they’re down) will boost productivity and decrease turnover.