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The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.

And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

There may be unknown particles lurking inside the quantum foam.

Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

They could also “turn off” their fear.

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.

If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.

The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.

Giving speech to the speechless.

Former Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh revitalized the brand with a visionary innovation plan.

An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”

There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.

“Neurotech is not just about the brain,” says Synchron CTO Riki Banerjee, explaining how their tech can help with paralysis, brain diseases, and beyond.

Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that “remembers” information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.

No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.

Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?

When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.

The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional power plant turbines.

AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

AI helped create films like “Jurassic Park” and “A.I.”, so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs.

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.

“Stargate” could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.

Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.

Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.

Is science close to explaining everything about our Universe? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder reacts.

Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.

Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.