This two-time debate world champion gives three tips for constructing the perfect argument.

Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?

Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.

Big Think covered the 2012 study shortly after it was published. We are now correcting the record.

If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.

Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?

“The X-Files” was not a documentary.

Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.

Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.

Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023’s show will be magnificent!

Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?

From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.

If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.

Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.

What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?

Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.

A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.

There are two types of missing, or “dark” matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?

The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.

Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.

His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.

These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.

Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.

A primer on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and performativity.

Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.

Exercise can have surprisingly transformative impacts on the brain, according to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. It has the power not only to boost mood and focus due to an increase in […]

Nothing can escape from a black hole. So where do Hawking radiation, relativistic jets, and X-ray emissions around black holes come from?

Opponents of America’s entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.

“I am not sick at all but everyone around me becomes sick.”

Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.