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.

The word parenting, as a verb, has only been around since 1958. Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik examines when caregiving became the art of hovering, and the pitfalls and anxiety of trying to shape children instead of raise them.