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Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.

All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.

Embedding any leadership philosophy in sports demands a selective and multi-disciplinary approach.

Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.

Our model of the Universe, dominated by dark matter and dark energy, explains almost everything we see. Almost. Here’s what remains.

We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.

Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.

All the stars, stellar corpses, planets, and other large, massive objects take on spherical or spheroidal shapes. Why is that universal?

Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?

To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it’s cemented as the beginning of our Universe.

Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.

Will “Sausage Party” survive the test of time?

Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It’s often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.

Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.

In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.

Despite the claims of speed reading apps, it turns out that you actually have to read the book if you want to learn from it.

“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.

For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion.

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.

Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.

A reader asks whether we have an ethical responsibility to always debate bad beliefs, especially those that come from our elders.

There are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.

Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.

In a study involving mice, scientists used two different techniques — one optogenetic and one pharmacologic — to recover “lost” memories.

Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.

George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.