At work we're often asked to be decisive — but how can we make an informed choice without complete information?
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Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
They're not just watching you; they're also calculating.
Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.
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The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.
Goalkeepers have an enhanced ability to integrate auditory and visual information compared to other players.
Having trouble learning? A PhD engineering professor gives you one key tip.
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What if your best friend was an informant?
Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.
Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
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Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.
How do we deal with information overload and unlock creativity? Build a second brain.
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The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible — but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains Hawking’s famous information paradox.
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The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the "dataome" for the physical, biological, and human worlds.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
This network physicist is mapping the world's most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.
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The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.
We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.
The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.