Americans encounter incivility more than twice a day on average (2.4 times) according to a new study. 

Some researchers are concerned that current methods are not the least painful and least stressful options. 

Renowned psychologist and emotion-guru Paul Ekman describes how introducing conscious awareness to facial expressions can help one override and control their emotions.

The video below gives us a microscopic view of an event that is happening with great frequency this month: a mosquito is eating human for dinner. 

The Sun's magnetic field will flip in three to four months, an event that will have ripple effects across the Solar System, that's detectable by even the far-away Voyager probes at the doorstep of interstellar space.

Lee Smolin posits the idea that new universes are born from parent universes through the mechanism of black holes. 

Responding to U.S. strikes and personnel evacuations in Yemen, Big Think Waq al-Waq blogger Gregory Johnsen asks a simple question: why? 

Galileo must have developed "a new theory of optics as revolutionary as the device itself." This theory he kept secret. 

If the Nobel committee has the guts, it has been argued, it could deliver "a smackdown to the security state."

The NOAA visualization below depicts a giant plume of dust moving off the coast of Africa. 

Curiosity's landing on Mars - a marvel of 21st century engineering - was in and of itself probably the rover's greatest feat to date.

It’s the most natural thing in the world – for an American parent especially – to praise a child for her intelligence or talent, rather than for how hard she […]

As a marine biologist points out, upwards of 70% of Discoveries viewers fell for the ruse and now believe that Megalodon isn’t extinct.

The first lab-made burger has been dubbed by some the Frankenburger. It has also been dubbed the 'Googleburger,' since Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, funded the $330,000 experiment as a potentially transformative project for the benefit of humanity. 

As subscribers to Big Think's YouTube channel know, we are proud participants this week in the first ever YouTube Geek Week, which is showcasing new videos, creative collaborations and all things geek through August 10. 

This time-lapse video, recorded by the Messenger spacecraft en route to Mercury, shows what it looks like to say goodbye to planet Earth. 

One Big Think editor has taken a vacation from idea-hunting (for the moment at least), and nonetheless stumbled upon a big idea, pictured above. Can you name the big idea?

The humanoid robot, named Kirobo, is scheduled to blast into space around sunrise from an island off southern Japan on board a supply ship bound for the International Space Station.

Saturn, Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter will all be visible in the August night skies, as will the annual Perseid meteors. A number of nebulas will also be easy to find among the constellations.

A brain-to-brain interface between a human and a rat enables a human to control the rat’s tail simply by thinking.