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In an age of high quit rates, struggling low-wage employees, and tone-deaf leadership, the call for “good jobs” makes great sense.

The observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve it?

Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.

Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.

Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?

As we pursue the leadership difference we seek, we attract fuel and generate heat. The trick is to avoid burnout.

All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?

Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?

A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus’ claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.

The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.

More than any other equation in physics, E = mc² is recognizable and profound. But what do we actually learn about reality from it?

It’s like combining Google Translate with a time machine.

Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.

By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.

In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.

From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.

How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?

The old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here’s a strategy for resilience.

Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.

The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?

This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.

It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?

Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.

Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?

Team storming — as defined by psychologist Bruce Tuckman — can be fractious. Done right, the benefits are immense.

“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.

13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here’s why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn’t how it will end.

Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.

In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.

With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.