Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
Take it from teamwork gurus behind Apple and Star Wars — a new kind of psychological incubator will allow your creativity to flourish.
The first elements in the Universe formed just minutes after the Big Bang, but it took hundreds of thousands of years before atoms formed.
Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
By supplementing the “principle of marginal gains” with these practical steps, you’ll be well equipped for the journey towards excellence.
Quiet quitting, The Great Resignation, burnout: there are a ton of buzzwords to describe how modern work culture is broken. Now that we know what the problems are, how do we fix them? Tiffani Bova shares how employers can heal their relationship with their employees.
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Each December, the Geminid meteor shower puts on a show for skywatchers across Earth. With a new Moon at 2023’s peak, it’ll be outstanding!
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
A company can only be as agile as its least flexible team — here’s how to make an effective framework for decision-making.
MakeLoveNotPorn founder Cindy Gallop says women need to stop giving a damn what people think.
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Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It’s not pretty for the “second” star.
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
There is currently no easy way to treat high Lp(a). A single shot could change that.
The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.
You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society’s attitude towards women in the workplace.
Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
How much do citizens really value free elections?
Fraud is a $5 trillion “industry.” But not all its perpetrators look alike. Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of accounting, breaks down who commits fraud — and why.
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In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?
“I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic.”
The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.
How to figure out the right amount of time for any project.