Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
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The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
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The L&D team at S&P Global discuss how they build a culture of learning at their organization.
Finding meaning isn’t just personally fulfilling — it’s critical to our brain’s development, explains USC neuroscientist.
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Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn’t exist.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
Just 460 light-years away, the closest newborn protostars are forming in the Taurus molecular cloud. Here are JWST’s astonishing insights.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
The new corporate landscape demands an approach to leadership based on empowering the “inner CEO.”
Our Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a “lumpy” Universe be at fault?
Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
The Universe’s history, from cosmic inflation to the Big Bang to the present, is known. But whether it’s infinite or not is still a mystery.
Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of trillions of galaxies within our Universe. Is one of them truly our “twin?”
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
In the brain’s language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).
The last infant stars are finishing their formation inside these pillars of gas. The evaporation of those columns is almost complete.
There was a time where no starlight was visible throughout the entire cosmos. That time was short-lived: shorter than astronomers imagined.
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?
You can’t farm spiders — but putting spider genes into silkworms works even better.
Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
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The L&D team at Chick-fil-A share how they develop their frontline leaders and engage learners at all levels of their organization.
New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
How do “you” emerge from a collection of cells? A biologist explains.
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