The Latest from Big Think

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Understanding "why" may be the key to unlocking an AI's imagination.
A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.
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Why your brain wants you to follow the crowd.
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If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.
Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.
Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.
The contact binary system KIC 9832227 is worth another look. Astronomers have seen some incredible occurrences across space and time. The nova of the star GK Persei, shown here in an […]
Cars are no longer just a way to get from A to B.
Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.
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This company uses thousands of mirrors, AI, and machine learning to unlock the power of the sun.
South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That's probably false, according to new research.
Biomedical science assumes that people want to live as long as possible. They don't.
Age ain't nothing but a number, but "inflammatory age" may be real.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]