The Latest from Big Think

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As this typewritten map shows, constraints can be freeing.
5mins
America treats the world like a board game. That's a problem.
If particles weren’t also waves, the Sun would never achieve nuclear fusion. Without quantum mechanics, life on Earth would never have come to exist. The greatest source of newly-produced energy in […]
A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald's restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
The Great White North has found a way to provide universal healthcare with more salubrious results and trimmed national costs. Take notes, America.
The particles are able to travel deep into tissue in ways that other treatments simply can't.
One of the most famous experiments in psychology might be completely wrong.
 Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky admits that when you’re on the bottom of a hierarchy, “it sucks whether you are a baboon or a human.” Sapolsky suggests that as a business leader, […]
The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.
4mins
Where is God? Michelle Thaller lays out a cosmic view of religion, science, and the human condition.
At ground zero, Trinitite, the green, glassy substance found in the area, is still radioactive and must not be picked up. The Trinity Site was where the first atomic bomb […]
All of eXp Realty's 1,500 employees work remotely on a virtual island complete with meeting rooms, a soccer field and speedboats.
The renowned author plans to publish a follow-up to the 1985 bestseller in September 2019.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out and into a good psychedelic book.
Verily, a branch of Google's parent company, recently finished its second study of a counterintuitive technique that kills mosquitoes without using traditional insect sprays.
Silent, carbon-free propulsion with no moving parts.