Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?

Spotify's Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

"These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem."

In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."

It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.

The Multiverse isn't just a staple of science fiction; there's real-life science behind it, too. Here are 10 facts to expand your mind.

How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."

Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.

Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.

"Many astronomers are really driven by the search for Earth twins because I think deep down the natural endpoint of this whole goal of looking for planets is to answer the question, are we alone?"

Over a century after we first unlocked the secrets of the quantum universe, people find it more puzzling than ever. Can we make sense of it?

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

How much can you know about someone from a single belief?

The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.

DESI, by mapping galaxies, has claimed they see evidence for dark energy evolving by getting weaker. But that's only one interpretation.

“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”

OpenAI has become a household name in artificial intelligence — but back in 2018 things looked very rocky. Here’s what happened.

Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.

"We try to stick to routines and we try to go through very long lists of tasks, often ignoring our mental health in the process. There is a lot more to think about on a daily basis, but our brains haven't evolved."