Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.

Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.

More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.

During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.

The challenges of setting out in a new direction can be overwhelming — but we can learn to navigate the inflection moments.

A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.

Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.

Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.

Even if you aren’t in the path of totality, you can still use the solar eclipse to measure how long it takes the Moon to orbit Earth.

Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?

Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.

There are only a precious few minutes of totality during even the best solar eclipses. Don’t waste yours making these avoidable mistakes.

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in “Elden Ring” and beyond.

His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.

A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.

In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.

A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.

NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?

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

The Reitoff principle gives us permission to “write off” a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.

Physicists just can’t leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.

The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.

Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.

The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th’s total eclipse will bring.