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At 1,600 light years away, the black hole is practically in our cosmic backyard.

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

This network scientist is creating a map of the human genome, and it could revolutionize the future of healthcare.

Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline relaunched last year with a new number, yet few Americans are aware of the helpline and its purpose.

Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.

In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes of light.

Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.

“What you pay attention to, is your life.” Where do you place precious brain resources?

Hundreds of these cannabis-related chemicals now exist, both natural and synthetic, inspiring researchers in search of medical breakthroughs.

Memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational.”

Researchers found that the average penis increased in size from 4.8 inches in 1992 to 6 inches in 2021. But in some regions, they shrank.

A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they’re not getting any happier.

Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.

Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.

The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.

Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.

NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.

Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke AI — an open-source creative engine — outlines the pros and cons of open-source and closed-source AI tools.

In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.

If the “self” is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.

Traditionally, the long history of Japanese thought has not been viewed as “philosophy” — even by Japanese scholars. It’s time for a rethink.

AI-powered voice technology is poised to revolutionize the ways we do business.

Forgetfulness isn’t always a “glitch” in our memories; it can be a tool to help us make sense of the present and plan for the future.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]

Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.