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When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.

From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.

Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.

You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?

We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.

Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.

Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?

“The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel.”

Arguments on social media are notorious. Can practicing intellectual humility make us smarter and happier? Science says yes.

Experts explain how lie detectors work, what happens in the brain when we tell lies and how accurate polygraph tests are.

Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.

An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.

The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can’t we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?

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

Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer.

Your very own “Conspiracy Detection Kit.”

Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.

Don’t let your reptile brain tell you what to do.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

On July 12, 2022, JWST will release its first science images. Here are 5 ways the telescope’s findings could change science forever.

Veteran investor Sujal Patel, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, helps us sift golden nuggets from the loose shale of entrepreneurship.

Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.

What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.

Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.

Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?

A clear alternative has yet to emerge.

Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.