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Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.
“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven’t seen that artist yet.”
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
The biology behind your office’s air conditioning war.
This is a perversion of justice.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?