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Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?

When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?

When we limit the clash of ideas, we ultimately hinder progress for the entire society.

From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.

Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.

A strange philosophical thought experiment forces us to ask if the world can be completely described in physical terms.

According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.

“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”

A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.

We have arrived: Big Think’s most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.

In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.

When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.

The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?

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The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.

A new theory suggests that dreams’ illogical logic has an important purpose.

Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?

Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]

If stars don’t go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?

Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.

Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.

There’s an extra source of massive “stuff” in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?

Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.

A retraction regarding a May 6, 2019 article entitled “Are these 100 people killing the planet?”

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Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn’t that violate…something?

After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.

Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.

Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.

Big Think’s eighth most popular video of the year reveals what the real future of war could look like.