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The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man’s nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.

“We could be wrong. But if we are right, it’s profoundly important.” Leading mineralogist Dr. Robert Hazen on the missing law of nature that could explain why life emerges.

One research group’s AI-based drug discovery platform could be redesigned to discover VX nerve agent and 40,000 similar chemical weapons.

Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.

The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.

Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.

How did life on Earth begin? Is there life on other worlds? An answer to either question will reflect heavily on the other. 

“We control nothing but influence everything.” Political scientist Brian Klaas on how every decision we make – both massive and miniscule – shapes our futures.

The properties of a ghostly particle called a neutrino are coming into focus.

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

“I think it’s about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages.”

Plato’s cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.

One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.

Hospice nurse Julie McFadden shares three examples where people hold off death, just for a bit.

Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.

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

A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.

Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed.

In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.

The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?

Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.

One day, this powerful tool could be in millions of smartphones.

Oliver Burkeman — author of “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” — tells Big Think about modern life lessons from a 6th-century monk.

“Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions.”

Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?

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

Organizational scientist Steven Rogelberg discusses the common meeting mistakes leaders make and how they can change course.

Two parts of our Universe that seem to be unavoidable are dark matter and dark energy. Could they really be two aspects of the same thing?

Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.