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Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.

Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.

Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.

The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.

From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.

Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.

The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we’re still very much a work in progress.

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

Restflix has over 20 personalized channels for optimal sleep.

Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.

Third on the Big Think 2019 countdown reveals this is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.

Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.

The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.

Taking the fourth spot on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?

How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, […]

Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?

Do your kids a favor and give them the gift of philosophy this Christmas.

Pencil Kings will guide you from beginner to mastery with industry-leading teachers from Marvel and DreamWorks.

Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.

While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]

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Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.

How should we think about the tension between opening the economy back up and preserving public health?

Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?

There are a few possible solutions to the problem of interstellar travel, but they largely remain within the realm of science fiction.

If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?