If you’ve gotten goosebumps when hearing a story about a stranger’s selfless heroism, or you’ve felt your chest swell at a concert, when the audience’s voice and the musician’s instruments align, you have felt awe. And, according to professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent his life studying it, it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits:

Maybe — just don't expect a carbon copy.

Physicist Daniel Whiteson challenges the notion that all intelligent species would eventually uncover the same laws of nature. Do you agree?

Rivals may try to outnumber us with fleets of cheap vessels. Our path is to out-innovate them.

Wales shares with Big Think his thoughts about the future of media, the promise of AI, and our need to build a culture on trust.

Introverts have social batteries that will drain over time, but they can be recharged with good energy hygiene. Here’s how.

Nearly 100 years after being theorized, the strange behavior of the neutrino still mystifies us. They could be even stranger than we know.

An ode to the data visualization tools that help us see what is too vast, complex, or interconnected for the naked eye — from planetary systems to pandemic trends.

The planet, the Solar System, and the galaxy aren't expanding. But the whole Universe is. So where does the dividing line begin?

A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber defenders are fighting back.

Natural navigator Tristan Gooley joins us to discuss the philosophy of reading nature’s hidden clues — and how relearning this ancient skill can help us see the world, and ourselves, with greater awareness.

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

Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.

Investment in quantum is growing. Anastasia Marchenkova wants to make sure funders still ask the tough questions.

In this excerpt from "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin makes the case that neurons reveal how memory, meaning, and even consciousness emerge from the same biological roots in humans, sea slugs, and beyond.

Red dwarfs are the Universe's most common star type. Their flaring now makes potentially Earth-like worlds uninhabitable, but just you wait.

It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.

If the people controlling AI are biased, the output will also be. Free speech scholar Jacob Mchangama makes the case for completely open-source AI.

Found by Hubble before JWST's launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar. Was it actually our first known "little red dot"?

“Deep down the natural endpoint of this whole goal of looking for planets is to answer the question: are we alone?”

Bold megaprojects could turn dry depressions into thriving new hubs of life.

Observations with the Hubble space telescope helped cement dark energy and reveal the Hubble tension. How are these two things so different?

The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts; that's a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.

“The universe clicks along in perfect accord with the laws of physics forever.”

"Think of it like a transcontinental railroad — not the fastest way to move a lot of mass, but certainly the most efficient,” Jared Isaacman said about nuclear electric propulsion.

Solar power has the disadvantage that there's no Sun at night. Satellite startup Reflect Orbital wants to change that, but at what cost?

A preview of the latest novel by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author.

Inflation's two main criticisms, that it can predict anything and that the "measure problem" remains unsolved, can't erase its successes.

The Orionids meteor shower peaks October 20th/21st here in 2025, coinciding with a new Moon. See the brightest shooting stars of the year!

To learn how our Universe grew up, we have to look at large numbers of galaxies at all distances to find out. Good thing we have JWST!