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The guilt-free air conditioning, called “cooling paper,” is made from recyclable paper and doesn’t use any electricity.

One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.

Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.

The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.

Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.

The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.

Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.

A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.

Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.

This week, Big Think is partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future.

This week, Big Think is partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future.

Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.

Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.

Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.

Air conditioning may keep a room cool, but using it is heating up the planet. It is time for something new — or old.

It could analyze a photo of the Martian surface in just five seconds. NASA scientists need 40 minutes.

It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.

The new brain tumor treatment targets a cancer that kills 75% of patients within a year.

One home was printed in 28 hours. Now, Alquist 3D is building 200 more.

South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

An accident left this musician with one arm. Now he is helping create future tech for others with disabilities.

The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.

The two-year pilot program will be a test of harm reduction strategies.

Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.

One patient’s surprising results have experts cautiously optimistic.

China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.

It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases.

Scientists created the mineral lonsdaleite in a lab and tested its strength using sound waves — before it was obliterated.