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An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: "Are we alone in the cosmos?"
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
Discover how Quantum Bayesianism challenges traditional quantum mechanics by focusing on the role of the observer in creating quantum reality.
This first-of-its-kind image offers a detailed look at the magnetic fields within the Central Molecular Zone.
30 years ago Jim VandeHei — co-founder and CEO of Axios — got leadership feedback all wrong. Now, he has the ideal blueprint so you can get it right.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn’t shatter our bones.
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense touched on diet as a cause for White's actions. It has become known as the "Twinkie defense."
Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
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Physicist Sean Carroll on entropy, complexity, and the origins of life:
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there any way to avoid "having to live with it?"
A poignant, 2,000-year-old burial in northern Italy could be the latest evidence of an ancient friendship.
A study of spinal development took a strange turn and made a surprise discovery.
Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.
Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.
You've got to know when to fight and when to laugh.