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The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.

When you hold yourself financially accountable, you’re likely to gain more than just some extra money.

The secret sauce is the real world.

Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.

For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?

Online learning has become the new normal, but it isn’t without its challenges.

Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.

If future studies prove it to be successful, this technique for the early detection of pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives.

Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.

Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.

Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.

Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.

To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore?

Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.

Northwell Health has built an elaborate data system to track and fight COVID-19. If this system goes global, it could prevent a future pandemic.

Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.

Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.

Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.

Black widows live up to their name.

The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.

Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.

Vijay Tella — CEO of enterprise orchestration unicorn Workato — joins Big Think Business for an exploration of our “agentic” future.

Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here’s how.

From before the Big Bang to Voyager 1, particle physicist Harry Cliff takes us on a whiz-bang tour of the Universe’s evolution.

The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.

Hint: They hold off on talking about their alien god until much later.

The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.

The crabs’ blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.

We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.

Neural imaging has shown that the brain has “decided” what we’re going to do before we make a conscious choice — but is this even relevant to free will?