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Perhaps the most well-known equation in all of physics is Einstein’s E = mc². Does mass or energy increase, then, near the speed of light?

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.

If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.

Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.

No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.

For college students, it’s the early afternoon.

Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.

Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.

Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.

An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.

“Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language.”

Businesses are realizing that rapid disruption without stability can lead to long-term failure. A new era of thoughtful, sustainable growth is emerging.

In today’s political climate, how can we come together and seek some common ground or understanding? What are the mechanics of doing that? Is there some script or set of […]

Here’s why the answer may forever elude scientists.

When migraine and tension-headache patients overuse their medications, they can actually trigger more headaches.

In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.

According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.

Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.

With any occupation comes a risk of health and safety hazards. When it comes to being Santa Claus, the challenges are unique.

Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.

George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

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

With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you’d think.

But scientists have found it again.

The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.

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.

The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.

Rhetorical mastery is within everyone’s reach — equipped with some basic techniques you can rock it like Aristotle.