innovation

NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.

Can biomaterials help finally thrust perovskite solar cells to mainstream adoption?

The federal government and private insurers greatly increased Americans’ telehealth access during the pandemic. Will these changes be permanent?

Allergies might never be a concern again.

Researchers from Harvard receive permission for a test that may help cool Earth and fight global warming.

She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.

Ultraviolet LED lights could soon be used to help disinfect air and surfaces in buildings, planes, subways and other spaces.

Is Bitcoin akin to ‘digital gold’?

Singapore has approved the sale of a lab-grown meat product in an effort to secure its food supplies against disease and climate change.

A clever new design introduces a way to image the vast ocean floor.

The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.

Apple sold its first iPod in 2001, and six years later it introduced the iPhone, which ushered in a new era of personal technology.

Australian researchers figure out a new way to apply extreme pressure and squeeze out diamonds.

Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?

Scientists discover that under certain conditions two kinds of water exist.

A new method is able to create realistic models of the human heart, which could vastly improve how surgeons train for complex procedures.

The “lone genius” often gets the credit for big ideas, but real-world innovation is a team sport.

New book explores a future populated with robot helpers.

How many hurdles stand in the way of hyperloops becoming a commercial reality?

Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.

Miso Robotics has already served up over 12,000 hamburgers.

An overfished planet needs a better solution. Fortunately, it’s coming.

An accident left this musician with one arm. Now he is helping create future tech for others with disabilities.

This week, Big Think is partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future.

We owe a lot to vaccines and the scientists that develop them. But we’ve only just touched the surface of what vaccines can do.

New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.

Dominique Crenn, the only female chef in America with three Michelin stars, joins Big Think Live.

The electric car manufacturer says updates to its battery design and manufacturing process will help lower production costs.

Innovators don’t ignore risk; they are just better able to analyze it in uncertain situations.

What exactly does “questions are the new answers” mean?