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The hunt for the elusive particles continues.

Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.

The talent of management should be unleashed toward the management of talent. Many companies are doing the opposite.

After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.

Is the multiverse real? It’s one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.

Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn’t that violate…something?

More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]

The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.

The outrage machine is fueled by toxicity. But there are practical steps that we can take to recapture control over our emotions.

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.

Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?

The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.

Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.

The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.

Fire-retardant gels and slimes combine the best attributes of water and foam.

The first nation to make bitcoin legal tender will use geothermal energy to mine it.

A new method of extracting rare-earth elements could put us on the track toward a circular economy.

It’s the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it’s still not the very beginning of everything.

Scientists might be looking for Martian life in the wrong place.

Human thinking is antiquated.

If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.

The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener’s safety.

The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.

The guilt-free air conditioning, called “cooling paper,” is made from recyclable paper and doesn’t use any electricity.

Geopolitics is not a magic 8-ball. But making financial decisions — such as those regarding retirement — in a multipolar world without geopolitics is akin to flying blind in a storm.

Quibi was so focused on foresight they forgot the basics of hindsight.