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How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Without wormholes, warp drive, or some type of new matter, energy, or physics, everyone is limited by the speed of light. Or are they?
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Big Think recently spoke with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about the surprising consequences of forgoing sleep.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
A more diverse workforce will produce better solutions in fast-changing markets.
Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there’s a good chance you have too much insulin.
To solve “addition bias” don’t punish people who subtract — call in the “friction fixers” instead.
Stars are born, live, and die within the spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way. These 19 JWST spirals deliver unprecedented riches.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.
If our Milky Way were located in the Virgo cluster instead of the Local Group, chances are we’d already be a “red and dead” galaxy.
The new electrically conductive substrate could be the future of hydroponic farming.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
Ways to move forward when you’re wrong and I’m right.
Valles Marineris is the Solar System’s grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
People who die by suicide are more likely to have reduced levels of the NPAS4 gene, which helps regulate inflammation in the brain.
Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank explains how he successfully embraced and deployed AI.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.
