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Visiting scholar James Timbie says that the artificial intelligence revolution will involve humans and machines working together, with the best results coming from humans supported by intelligent machines.
There's a reason you're not motivated when you smoke weed: it ruins your episodic memory.
A new study shows that U.S. students infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite are more likely to be business managers and entrepreneurs.
Harvard psychologist Susan David says she worries about the message that society promotes about focusing on happiness — that it may inadvertently result in greater levels of unhappiness. Happiness has become […]
What are the different types of rocket engines and will there be a rocket engine coming in the future that uses very little energy? NASA's Michelle Thaller explains.
The Universe was born with equal amounts of matter and antimatter. How did matter win? 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was the hottest […]
Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty" science.
Score another point for man's best friend.
A new study finds that people who do good are often ridiculed and punished by their co-workers and friends.
Built in a vacuum, this little dynamo is challenging the boundaries of physics.
Hackers working for Russia have gained access to hundreds of U.S. electric utilities in 2017, according to new reports from federal officials.
Reports show that millennials are making and saving less than previous generations, likely setting them up to retire later in life—or not at all.
A quarter-million years of evolution can't be wrong.
Employee “churn,” or turnover, is the costly asset loss every organization faces when an employee resigns, retires, or gets fired. Josh Bersin of Deloitte reports that voluntary turnover alone, at […]
It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help.
Our best physical theories predict that a multiverse exists. But if we can’t test it, is it really scientific? The Universe is all there ever was, all there is, and […]
The afterglow of sex can lead to a greater sense of well-being, show researchers.
Why do we continue to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan? Because of two big reasons.
Maria Konnikova, best-selling author and former Big Think columnist, will be speaking with poker legend Erik Seidel and Big Think president Peter Hopkins at a New York City event on August 1.
To get a good night's sleep, is it better to write down your achievements or the to-do list for the next day? Researchers tested the two different sleep techniques in the lab.