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Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.

25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?

Spotify's Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

"These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem."

In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their parent stars, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky ones.

"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."

It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

"Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We're beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things."

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.