Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.

Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of "Pikachu," a well-loved Tabby, into space.
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
It marks a major shift in the government's battle against the opioid crisis.