The Latest from Big Think

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The standard face-to-face team is inefficient for employees and employers alike.
New study of gamma rays and gravitational lensing points to the possible presence of dark matter.
It isn’t just that mass and energy are equivalent and interchangeable. It tells us something fundamental about mass itself. Of all the equations that we use to describe the Universe, perhaps […]
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Tech is rising and America's middle class is vanishing. Here's what to do.
Playing and being creative shouldn't stop when you grow up.
Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?
Astronomers find these five chapters to be a handy way of conceiving the universe's incredibly long lifespan.
A year ago, a puzzling gap existed between black holes and neutron stars. With nearly a year of new data, LIGO solves the puzzle. On Monday, March 16, 2020, astrophysicist Carl […]
From a personal point of view and from an economic point of view, this is nothing short of potentially disastrous for people's livelihoods.
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The welfare state is broken. UBI is the smarter, more effective option.
In such states of creative divergent thinking, the body is aroused and the pupils become dilated.
An inside look at common relationship problems that link to how we were raised.
Coke, meth, ecstasy, amphetamines: each drug has a different 'capital'
Need to isolate? No problem! This philosopher is keeping the world posted on his isolation routine by Facebook.
The pandemic is exposing long-fractured aspects of our society.
We’ve never found eight stars bound together in the same stable system. But nature might make it so. The Universe that we have is often more wondrous and bizarre than even […]
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Distraction at work is a symptom of cultural dysfunction, not a symptom of technology, as many people claim.
Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to ocean and atmospheric circulations.
Medical researchers put a ring on it to learn more about the onset of COVID-19.