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In partisan political times, recognizing the scientific truth is more important than ever. Scientists must be vocal and clear about reality.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

By looking back at future dreams we can see our current hopes and visions in a whole new light.

Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.

Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?

For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]

A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.

To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

It’s difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

Earth wasn’t created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.

The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.

Einstein’s theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?

It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?

NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller is coming back to Big Think’s studio soon to answer YOUR questions! Here’s all you need to know to submit your science-related inquiries.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

Over a century after we first unlocked the secrets of the quantum universe, people find it more puzzling than ever. Can we make sense of it?

A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?

From a hot, dense, uniform state in its earliest moments, our entire known Universe arose. These unavoidable steps made it all possible.

In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.

With crisis management training, organizations can develop the agility to recover from crises with as little disruption as possible.

Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.

Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff on how to spot and break free from cognitive scripts that limit personal growth.

The JWST’s observations of well-developed galaxies early in universal history may coincide with accepted astronomical theory after all.

On the largest of cosmic scales, the Universe is expanding. But it isn’t all-or-nothing everywhere, as “collapse” is also part of the story.

After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.

Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.