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Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?

In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.

If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.

Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

Gravitational waves are the last signatures that are emitted by merging black holes. What happens when these two phenomena meet in space?

Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government uses Newspeak to control thoughts by controlling language. But thoughts do not require language.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.

We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.

In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?

To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.

We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.

Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.

After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?

It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.

While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.

Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.

Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.

Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we’re going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?