Constant touching and emotional warmth are essential to cognitive development, yet our educational and professional environments are skeptical, often for litigious reasons.

The leading research and technology company in the Nordic countries, VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland Ltd, has developed a mass-production method that allows the manufacturing of decorative organic solar panels that can be used on a variety of surfaces.

Though the job market is seeking more Spanish-English bilingual employees, there are far more jobs valuing their skill at less than $35,000 per year than $95,000 per year.

Neuroscientist Joy Hirsch chats with The New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer about searching within the brain for where "genius" resides.

New anthropological research demonstrates that belief in an all-powerful God is not essential to the formation and development of complex society.

Everest is presenting a new challenge to man: how to dispose of human feces on the world's tallest mountain.

Some consumers are hesitant to adopt electric-powered vehicles out of fear that they will become stranded — something researchers are calling “range anxiety.”

As part of Big Think's partnership with 92Y's Seven Days of Genius series, New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer asks Heather Berlin about the research that illuminates our understanding of genius.

In 1931, Norway annexed part of Greenland. It could have been the start of a very Cold War indeed. 

In life, the most important skill is communication. It’s the bottleneck to almost every problem in almost every area of our lives. Effective communication is similar to magic, for it […]

Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains current research into creative "flow states," examining what happens in the brain when rappers and jazz musicians improvise.

Author and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis explains how Uber's business plan seeks to change the way the public perceives car ownership.

If patients better understood the health risks associated with certain kinds of medical care, they would likely seek less treatment.

On March 4th at 19:30:15 Universal Time, Venus and Uranus will pass within 0.1° of each other. Here’s how to see it. “Since you cannot do good to all, you […]

The technology draws on the concepts established by theatre companies like Punchdrunk that create an immersive world for an audience to explore while the narrative unfolds around them.

Most people have their doctor's ear for about 10 minutes during a routine examination. It's vital to prepare a strategy that will get most if not all of your questions answered.

It's difficult to make friends out in the "real world." But some people have managed to forge those special bonds through hook-up apps, like Grindr and Tinder.

Teaching Girls to See Themselves as Leaders, with Tara Sophia Mohr In order to guide young women to achieve their full leadership potential, life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr […]

Researchers confirm the best location to hunker down during a zombie outbreak: go where people aren't.

Health apps aren't regulated by the medical industry and there's little in the way of standardization, making them unreliable and a risky investment for some consumers.