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The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.

Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.

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

The number of planets that could support life may be far greater than previously thought, a recent discovery suggests.

Here’s the case for why science can’t keep ignoring human experience.

AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.

Humans, when we consider space travel, recognize the need for gravity. Without our planet, is artificial or antigravity even possible?

Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.

Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.

How to make sure our formative tendencies don’t derail us from being the great leaders we are trying to become.

Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.

Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.

There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.

Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.

Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?

Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.

The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that’s just not true.

It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet.”

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

Matt Strassler’s journey into fundamental physics culminates in a brilliant explanation of the Higgs field. Enjoy this exclusive interview.

And how to make it think differently.

∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.

“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.” 

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

Of the world’s 300 honey varieties, none is stranger and more dangerous than mad honey.

Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.