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Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.
Just 460 light-years away, the closest newborn protostars are forming in the Taurus molecular cloud. Here are JWST's astonishing insights.
Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
It's possible to remove all forms of matter, radiation, and curvature from space. When you do, dark energy still remains. Is this mandatory?
In the brain's language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.
CERN scientists achieved record-breaking accuracy in mapping the mass of a key particle in the Standard Model.
AI has become a black box in more ways than one.
It's deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.
Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil.
Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it's a losing strategy for elimination.
Almost all of the stars, planets, and interesting physics happens in the inner portions of galaxies. Is that conventional wisdom all wrong?
8mins
Eric Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO, Gooder AI, argues machine learning (ML) projects go astray because their stakeholders focus too often on the technological fireworks — the “rocket science” of predictive models.
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity's next off-world homes.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
Within our observable Universe, there's only one Earth and one "you." But in a vast multiverse, so much more becomes possible.
Quantum computing brings significant opportunities — but equally significant cybersecurity risks.
A recent experiment challenges the leading dark matter theory and hints at new directions for uncovering one of the Universe's biggest mysteries.
The laws of physics aren't changing. But the Earth's conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.
Most fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
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From nothing to everything: How zero changed our understanding of the universe, forever.
The Lyman-α emission line has never been seen earlier than 550 million years after the Big Bang. So why does JADES-GS-z13-1-LA have one?
When AI eats its own product, it gets sick.