The Latest from Big Think

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Digital twin
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Metalic Corrosion
Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
Guided by ultrasound waves, swarms of microrobots could soon be used to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
henri bergson
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that's how we talk about time.
Data privacy in a digital world could be a thing of the past
People appear to have no qualms about sharing their locations, struggles, and relationships online.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
cosmic inflation
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
bernardinelli-bernstein
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
Hot peppers
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
Foundation
Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series helped inspire the field of social physics, which uses math to understand crowd behavior.
bullshit jobs
6mins
Experts say we should only be working 15 hours per week, so why are some working 80?
How the Facebook social media algorithm manipulates you
Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”
Monopoly
When "superstar" companies start to dominate their industries, consumers sometimes benefit.
graphene
From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing "impossible" electronics to life.
dog bark meaning
A new study suggests that hunting dogs' barks convey emotional information about the animals they see.
Why do people own so many unused possessions, treating them as though they are too special to use?
CRISPR
The development of the revolutionary gene-engineering tool CRISPR is a tale fit for the big screen.
Mediocrity principle
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.
Yukio Mishima photograph
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
psychopath empathy
"Theory of mind" enables all people to naturally infer other people's mental states. Psychopaths don't seem to put much effort into the process.