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To spur action on climate change, we need a story of mythical proportions.

When two different techniques give two different results, either someone is wrong, or something incredible is happening. Imagine you were a scientist attempting to measure some property of the Universe. […]

How Nelson Mandela, quantum mechanics, and the Internet combined to provide evidence of parallel universes. 

Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.

The ultimate fate of the universe is a mind-bogglingly thing to think about. So what’s the final outcome for it all?

Startups create the tech and products that set the tone for our collective future. It’s pivotal that founders lead by example to make diversity and inclusion a priority—and reap the rewards.

In the simplest of words, an Instagram influencer is an individual who has a huge fan base. These fans or ‘followers’ are tuned into the influencer’s activity online because they […]

A primer on the infinite of knowledge waiting to be learned.

Scientists are highly skeptical, but such “cosmic wanderlust” isn’t a bad thing.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Claire Messud on childhood, growing up, and how we contain the things that scare us. 

Our understanding of the universe has expanded tremendously in the last few decades. But there are still some mysteries out there, and the Great Attractor is one of them.

A survey by SimplyHired examines the experiences and feelings of people who’ve had office affairs and people who haven’t.

When two black holes merge together, about 5% of their mass gets lost. Where does that information go? Do merging black holes lose information? They absolutely must, according to General […]

In Life After Google, George Gilder writes that we’re paying a heavy cost for “free.”

Finding the particle we assume is responsible for dark matter has always been a guessing game. We guessed wrong. You can’t get mad at a team for trying the improbable, hoping […]

Infographics look at jobs 95% likely to be taken by robots and the working hours that will be lost.

Dark matter’s naysayers latched onto one tiny puzzle. This new find may have solved it completely. Imagine the largest cosmic smashup you can. Take the largest gravitationally bound structures we […]

Evolution doesn’t clean up after itself very well.

The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 23 brand new videos! The experts featured below are diverse in both their backgrounds and skill sets, ranging from a theoretical physicist […]

Late night texts provide insights on America’s recreational drug use, documenting good and bad times with meth, cocaine, heroin, pills, marijuana, LSD, and ecstasy.

Twenty years ago, Nintendo asked America to try to catch ’em all. We still haven’t (legitimately) captured a Mew.

Think you’ve seen sand? You haven’t seen sand.

Before there were humans, planets, or even stars and galaxies, we had to make the first elements. Here’s how they happened. From the first moments of Big Bang to the […]

Respected Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose sees swirls of radioactivity in a sky map as evidence that the Big Bang isn’t true. These “Hawking rings” suggest to him that the universe expands and collapses over and over.

Some stress out. Some read. Some drink.

Does everybody really need to work? What three philosophers have to say about our dedication to finding everybody a job.

Carl Sagan liked to smoke weed. His essay on why is fascinating.

Gravity gets weaker as the distance squared. But gravitational waves only get weaker as the distance. Why? One of the things we often just accept about the world is that […]

Developing an effective learning culture—one in which employees are continuously learning new things and applying those lessons to their work—is one of the most important tasks for any modern organization.

It’s one of the biggest assumptions we’ve ever made about the Universe. Here’s why it’s wrong. Almost everyone has heard the story of the Big Bang. But if you ask anyone, […]