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Scientists get one step closer to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak by creating a material that can conceal objects, with far-reaching commercial applications.
Are robots and AI really ready for us to begin depending on them?
Economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin says that sharing online and on-grid spells the death of capitalism and the birth of a worldwide neural net.
The man who lives a functional life with most of his brain filled with water challenges what we know about the brain.
And what, exactly, is the significance of a tetraquark? “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words […]
The Israeli news organization Haaretz is reporting that a military coup is currently underway in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara. This is a developing story.
Healthy sounding foods aren’t always healthy. A 2014 study titled Truth, Lies, and Packaging: How Food Marketing Creates a False Sense of Health examined the difference between packaging claims of […]
Big Think's podcast where experts discuss surprise topics outside of their comfort zones. This week, science writer Mary Roach on dark matter, philosophy, artificial intelligence and more.
We have electric charges and currents in electromagnetism, so why not magnetic ones, too? “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is […]
How one famous magician turned atheist by reading the Bible.
Wilt Chamberlain dominated basketball. Yet given the chance to improve one critical element of his game, he let popular opinion override physics.
Healthcare, education, food production, and resource management will all have to change if we are to survive and thrive.
Languages the world over have words for love we all seem to understand.
The idea that there might only be one fundamental force might be a fundamental mistake. “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of […]
Businesses looking to get people in the door may want to check out Pokémon Go. Seriously.
1 in 7 people get them, and there is no cure. Now researchers are one step closer to what causes migraines, and how best to manage them.
A new study by a Harvard University economist shows surprising results about whom the police are actually more likely to shoot.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains why understanding new theories in physics is so hard, and why it’s so much fun.
If we started all over again, could our Solar System’s second planet have been the inhabited one? “It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though […]
How many kinds of stories are there? From Harry Potter, to Oedipus and Romeo and Juliet, scientists at University of Vermont use data modeling to figure it out.