Earth orbits the Sun while spinning on its tilted axis, with two annual occasions marking that maximal tilt. That's where solstices arise.

Who polices our identities?

Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.

David S. Goyer explains how paying attention to mystery, and not brushing it aside, became the foundation for the way he builds stories, characters, and worlds.

With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy's future comes into sharp, exciting focus.

In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.

As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.

There are two sides to the AI debate, and both are perpetuating the idea that AI is “inevitable, all-powerful, and deserves to be controlled by a tiny group of people,” says the Empire of AI author.

“The problem is in our information. Humans, yes, we are generally good and wise, but if you give good people bad information, they make bad decisions.”

In “Rewiring Democracy,” Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how AI could strengthen democracy or undermine it.

As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.

Tech legend Bob Taylor — a pioneer of the computing revolution — figured out the genius of framing two types of disagreement.

Having explored the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest, and the edge of space, Victor Vescovo knows what awe feels like in its most dramatic forms. What surprised him most was how often that same feeling appears in everyday life.

Some vital, key ingredients must be in place for the Universe to make more matter than antimatter. The LHC took us one step closer in 2025.

Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"

Our brains weren’t built for the amount of info we deal with now. That’s why scientists have made the case for a “second brain” — a place to dump ideas so you can actually see how they connect later.

With a waning Moon and a denser-than-ever debris trail, 2025's Geminids might be the year's best meteor shower, and 2026's could be amazing.

Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.

Not every company holds an annual food skirmish like OGC — but designing rituals with intentionality can strengthen your corporate soul.

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

Joe Nucci, author of "Psychobabble," joins us to discuss how the misuse of psychological language risks blurring the lines between everyday problems and clinical diagnoses.

In this excerpt from "Strange Stability," Benjamin Wilson explores how the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.

What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.

“Old systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born. I call this moment the great progression.”

“Why would adding shame and blame help me improve my behavior?”

From bombed reactors to inflation and blackouts, a cascade of crises is testing the Islamic Republic’s resilience like never before.

In this excerpt from "The Great Math War," Jason Socrates Bardi explores how Georg Cantor revolutionized mathematics and reshaped how our finite minds conceived of the infinite.

Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we've finally figured out how they form.

Decades before COVID imposed remote work on the world, Jack Nilles pioneered WFH and championed its many benefits.

One side of the Moon always faces us: the near side. The "dark side" of the Moon began as a mere metaphor, but today, science can weigh in.