The present story is only the beginning; there’s a revolution coming! “Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants […]

The increased use of smart drugs to boost brain performance is raising many ethical and practical questions.

Samuel Arbesman warns that we’ve entered a new “age of Entanglement” with our complex technology-based systems.

Think happy, be happy? Maybe not. Harvard psychologist Susan David examines the backlash effect of forced positivity in our lives.

Look who went and got himself a talk show. Big Think's regular contributor Bill Nye will be on Netflix in 2017!

Astronomers find a galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter.

Can the art of communal bathing teach us to be more social animals? 

A new study finds that by having a plan B, we may unintentionally sabotage our initial plan.  

The way to a healthy mind is through the stomach, according to psychiatrist Drew Ramsey. The right foods can decrease your risk of depression by 50%, and treat clinical mental disorders.

Rumors of a terrorist gunman escalated at LAX. A panicked crowd trampled an old woman, snapping her femur. In our best Dick Cheney voice: "If you allow blind fear to disrupt society, the terrorists have already won."

Now that we know the closest star has a potentially habitable planet, it’s time to ask if it’s really like ours. “To consider the Earth as the only populated world in […]

A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.

If someone comes back from the future, they ought to have packed one thing in their carry on: proof.

Do you know how your iPhone works? Because cybercriminals do. Futurist and global security advisor Marc Goodman explains how our void in tech knowledge lets hackers have a field day, and how to make yourself less vulnerable.

One of the fathers of string theory proposes a new equation that may reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics.

As this stark map shows, domestic violence against children is still legal in most of the world.

A group of expert geologists declared that a new epoch influenced by human impact has begun.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer on the two surprising qualities successful writers need.

Seattle has a new plan to reduce HIV, drug overdoses, and stray needles: it wants to let addicts shoot heroin and smoke crack legally in monitored spaces.

SETI researchers have found a major radio telescope signal and are trying to nail down where it’s from.