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There are some 26 fundamental constants in nature, and their values enable our Universe to exist as it does. But where do they come from?

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.

The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.

From Æthelred the Unready to Halfdan the Bad Entertainer, these strange epithets colored the legacy of four rather unlucky historical figures.

After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.

The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.

Three of the greatest moral philosophers — Bentham, Kant and Aristotle — offer invaluable and practical lessons for leaders today.

The technology is not a replacement for human labor — it’s a way to complement existing human tasks.

Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? Philosopher Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds.

In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.

An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.

Despite no experimental evidence showing that gravitons exist, they remain a respectable concept in the world of professional physicists.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

The former Nintendo president has become synonymous with the backlash against layoffs — because, like a great leader, he focused on lifting people.

Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.

Since the dawn of history, humans have pondered our ultimate cosmic origins. Now in the 21st century, science has gone beyond the Big Bang.

The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.

The closest known star that will soon undergo a core-collapse supernova is Betelgeuse, just 640 light-years away. Here’s what we’ll observe.

You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?

The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.

One of the fundamental constants of nature, the fine-structure constant, determines so much about our Universe. Here’s why it matters.

The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value. 

We’ve wasted our time and resources ideologically policing and punishing each other for far too long. Here’s a better route to prosperity.

Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.

The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.

Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That’s why alien species stuck in the “oxygen bottleneck” may be forever primitive.