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Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.

You are much more likely to die in a car crash than from terrorism. Yet, philosopher Eran Fish says fearing terrorism more is justified.

The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.

If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.

Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.

Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it’s everywhere.

Statistician Talithia Williams on how math is the clearest path to understanding our existence.

A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they’re not getting any happier.

Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.

New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.

Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.

Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.

These 5 human development principles could completely change the way we think about learning and potential.

Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.

Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.

James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

“Ghost gear” leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.

The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn’t vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.

The flavor is “simultaneously fascinating and… abusive.”

The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.

Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.

Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.  

13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth’s last wild continent.

If someone can make you feel insecure, incomplete, and inadequate, they then can present themselves as the solution you need.

Could it be culture?

Here’s the dark side of first contact.

In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.

The multifaceted nature of company culture is what makes it so challenging — this guide will help you make sense of the complexity.

The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.

Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.