Economics and religion help to explain the gap.

In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.

You know Steve-O. Now meet Steve Glover, as the professional stuntman talks to us about pain, insecurity, and never finding contentment.

NASA’s Juno mission, in orbit around Jupiter, occasionally flies past its innermost large moon: Io. The volcanic activity is unbelievable.

The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.

As planets with too many volatiles and too little mass orbit their parent stars, their atmospheres photoevaporate, spelling doom for some.

The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.

The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.

Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.

Author of the Canceling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff explains the current state of free speech in the United States.

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?

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.

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.

Adam Bryant interviewed over 1,000 CEOs. These are the 3 critical skills to running a company.

Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.

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.

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.

From hunter-gatherers to the American Dream: This is how humanity’s definition of “work” has developed over time.

Ways to move forward when you’re wrong and I’m right.