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Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.

Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect.

Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.

Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn’t exist.

The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.

Hybrid animals emerge when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery. 

There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.

An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.

New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.

Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.

The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.

Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.

That completely useless thing you want to get rid of — it’s probably more important than you think.

This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.

Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.

In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.

Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.

Like toddlers, adults can also get “overtired.”

“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”

The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.

We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.

There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.

Addicted to spending money you want to save? Here’s how to stop.

All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. 

Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they’re an easy target and are not completely controllable.