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Scientists turn to nature to improve a ubiquitous building material.

We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.

For many, it was just a successful launch like any other. But for scientists around the globe, it was a victory few dared to imagine.

Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.

Everything everywhere all at once.

Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.

The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.

A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.

Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.

For Buddhists, the “Four Noble Truths” offer a path to lasting happiness.

The Universe certainly formed stars, at one point, for the very first time. But we haven’t found them yet. Here’s what everyone should know.

The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.

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

Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.

The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.

Frugality can also benefit the environment.

The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.

Intelligence is not fixed but fluid. A growth mindset allows our brains to flourish while lowering our stress levels.

The ancient Maya enjoyed filling their teeth with gemstones. A new study reveals how the procedure was done and how it didn’t kill them.

Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

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

How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.

More than any other equation in physics, E = mc² is recognizable and profound. But what do we actually learn about reality from it?

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.

By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.

The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.

Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.