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Researchers are looking into what this fratboy fish of the Mexican underwater cave systems can teach us about sleep regulation. 

The ICARUS Initiative aims to track migratory animals from space using special transmitters and antennae. The data retrieved from the project will help us conserve biodiversity but has the potential to promote human well-being and prosperity, too.

If most people knew the details, they might feel very differently about the games.

Alas, much like parrots, they don’t know what they’re saying … it’s just that they can do it, which is still pretty remarkable. 

A record-breaking 515 contestants competed in the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee where they faced words like Soubresaut, Condottiere, and Amyloid.

A moving mural by street artist Eduardo Kobra is one of the first fruits of a revolution about to take the art world by storm.

Hunting trophies, by the thousands, lined the walls of his palaces and lodges.

A new survey and study compares beliefs about creation with a person’s scientific understanding and finds that the more one knows, the greater the chances are of accepting evolution as fact.

Poachers trade on a black market estimated to total $40 billion. It’s impossible to stop every poacher, but new technology could bolster the efforts of conservationists by putting a set of eyes in the sky.  

Almost every reader will learn from the vast erudition (and biblical proportions) of Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’. But it’s data-lit gospel of progress hides darker biases.

In her book, Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray reports on the ethics and science behind de-extinction. 

Infographics detailing the exporting of live animals from Africa, 2001-2015

The concept of non-action might just be the most powerful action to take for curbing anxiety.

The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 21 new videos!

This remarkable breakthrough is sure to usher in a new generation of robots.

Poaching is acting as unnatural selection in favoring tuskless African elephants.

The social media company’s new policies only spotlight its arbitrary decision-making process.

A new study explains why some people seem to be better than others at ridding their minds of intrusive thoughts.

Is all life on Earth bound together by mathematics?

Scientists in Japan have discovered why yawning is so contagious.

Quantum interpretations are all the rage. Too bad you don’t even need one. In everyday life, there are certain rules we take for granted: cause-and-effect, for instance. Something occurs, and that […]

The discovery in Kenya of a 13-million-year-old fossil skull unearths the common ancestor of humans and apes.

The Nonhuman Rights Project turns to philosophy to persuade courts to honor chimpanzees’ rights.

Harvard scientists say they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo with mammoth traits.

We talked to a scientist who studies the afterlife and near-death experiences.

Edward Luce’s new book is The Retreat of Western Liberalism, but let’s clarify its logic. 

From its symbolism within the Seven Kingdoms, to its political allegory for all of us beyond it, the season seven finale is an epic set-up for the final showdown.

Altered states of consciousness are documented across cultures, from shamans to Silicon Valley coders. As different as these experiences seem, there are four neurological features they all have in common.

Could there be a massive, giant planet beyond Neptune? Here’s what the science says… for now. “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one […]

We’re about to kick off the sixth great extinction event. And we’ll follow shortly after.