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The mind-blowing theory that everything is evolving—from minerals to music—explained in 3 minutes by a Carnegie scientist.
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Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?
Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.
Honing your skills as a strategic thinker does more than solve problems as they appear; it can be a fast track to the top.
“Gyroscope-on-a-chip” technology could soon enable us to navigate over long distances without GPS.
Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these “outliers” might be the most common type of planet overall.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.
A golden new era of business is within our reach — provided that we harness AI’s potential while mitigating the risks.
The promising new treatment builds on research that went into developing COVID vaccines.
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question “Is life computable?”
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we’re witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
How do scientists measure and define life in the natural world? Dr. Lee Cronin gives us a definition, in 4 minutes:
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These 5 human development principles could completely change the way we think about learning and potential.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.
Just 165,000 light-years away, the Large Magellanic Cloud is suspected to house a supermassive black hole. At last, evidence has arrived.
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.
Since mid-2022, JWST has been showing us how the Universe grows up, from planets to galaxies and more. So, what’s its biggest find of all?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.