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“Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain,” writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

The tiniest galaxies of all are the most severely dominated by dark matter. Could black holes be the cause of the extra gravity instead?

“We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive.”

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.

One of the most promising dark matter candidates is light particles, like axions. With JWST, we can rule out many of those options already.

For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here’s why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.

Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.

HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).

Here in our Solar System, terrestrial bodies get moons from gravitational capture or collisions. The Pluto-Charon system? It was both.

The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

The COSMOS-Web survey is now complete, combining JWST and Hubble infrared data. Its spectacular views show us the Universe as never before.

As the closest icy ocean world to Earth, Ceres may be a promising candidate in the search for signs of ancient life.

If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old today, but different ages the farther we look back, what does it mean for a star to be the first?

The most massive early galaxies grew up faster, and have more stars, than astronomers expected, according to JWST. What does it all mean?

With so many early galaxies of unexpectedly large brightnesses, JWST surprised us all. Here’s how scientists made sense of what we see.

How do normal matter and dark matter separate by so much when galaxy clusters collide? Astronomers find the surprising, unexpected answer.

Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.

There was a time where no starlight was visible throughout the entire cosmos. That time was short-lived: shorter than astronomers imagined.

Whether it’s LeBron’s shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.

Originally, the abundance of bright, early galaxies shocked astronomers. After 3 years of JWST, we now know what’s really going on.

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In “Raising AI,” De Kai argues that today’s AIs are already more like us than we think they are.