Search
Latest Articles
The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.
First detected last month by the South Pole IceCube neutrino observatory, the discovery is expected to open the door to an entirely new way of looking at the universe.
“Smart” data disclosures offer “a new tool that helps provide consumers with greater access to the information they need to make informed choices.”
I was going to write about this yesterday, but for many hours I was convinced that it had to be an Onion article, or a social-anthropological experiment designed by an […]
This according to the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, which released statistics this week. Thanks to Superstorm Sandy, the US made the top-10 list of countries with the largest numbers of people displaced.
Certain forms of nitrogen contribute to a host of health and environmental problems. A new tool helps individuals see how their lifestyle choices fit into the larger sustainability picture.
Very often the first piece of information we have about a person is their name. It’s often the first thing you learn about someone and we form judgments about people very rapidly.
When you think of social media, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Facebook. That’s no surprise considering that as of April […]
Researchers say that the snow line of the world's tallest mountain has retreated by nearly 600 feet in the last 50 years. It's the latest data available in the controversial discussion about the melting of Himalayan glaciers.
Last week two articles were published stating that meditation is not necessarily a component of living a spiritual life, as well as that we generally don’t recognize what real meditation […]
Researchers at Arizona State University want help with gathering and editing information about each of the estimated 30,000 power plants operating worldwide.
There may be fewer of them in the future: Half of the people surveyed for a new report said they would prefer to buy their next car from a machine rather than from a human.
According to the biologist's view, if we are indeed inherently polygamists, we should have never been as happy as we are today because modernity would seem to enable our real nature to express itself.
Extremely lightweight materials allow developers to program a robot to do almost anything a real bird can do, from dives to back flips.
There is an imbalance between economic importance in global GDP and economic voice in the setting of the global economic agenda. What’s required for the future is a rebalancing of this mismatch.
3mins
Recognizing the gains of emerging markets like Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey is not just good manners. It’s good business.
The “intent to treat” format does not alleviate selection problems within the “intent to treat” group.