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The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value.
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution.
Nobody knows where the word “penguin” comes from.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn’t if it’s going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Without wormholes, warp drive, or some type of new matter, energy, or physics, everyone is limited by the speed of light. Or are they?
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
The answer may lie in the power to see far, far beyond yourself.
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
The Big Bang is commonly misunderstood, warping our understanding about the Universe’s size and shape.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there’s often a deeper reason behind the feeling.