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Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.

Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?

Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?

Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.

Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.

Learn to spot the scientists who are searching for the truth rather than money, ego, or fame.

Risqué or just risky?

After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!

Tikal, one of the biggest cities the Maya ever built, was home to a vast and flourishing society.

Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.

The closest known star that will soon undergo a core-collapse supernova is Betelgeuse, just 640 light-years away. Here’s what we’ll observe.

“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.” 

Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What’s the root cause of this Hubble tension?

Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.

The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.

Plenty of parents feel guilty about wanting to skip playtime, but there’s no need.

The co-founder of Wired magazine shares his insights on how a long-term mindset can shape a brighter, more innovative future.

When constructed well, post-training survey questions can provide a wealth of information that helps guide future design decisions.

It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.

Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.

From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.

It’s deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.

Our economy is dominated by middlemen, including huge companies such as Walmart and Amazon. There are many benefits to going direct instead.

In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.

It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.

Oxytocin can boost heart cells’ ability to regenerate.

Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.

Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.

Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?

“Painfully forced” is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald’s writing style.