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Former President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, unpacks the leadership strategy behind her success.
So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.
AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
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When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:
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James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.
Unlikely Collaborators
Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here's how some galaxies defy that rule.
Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
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Coleman Hughes advocates for a colorblind America, presenting compelling arguments in favor of treating all individuals without regard to race.
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what's known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There's a profound reason why.
Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.
The management of fear is a core leadership skill in today’s globalized world — and the task is not as daunting as you might expect.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here's why.
Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.