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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

Book cover for "More Everything Forever" by Adam Becker, featuring a cosmic background with vertical blue streaks and white text, blending AI, space, humanity’s future, and echoes of Star Trek’s vision of exploration.
As we shape our future we should ask: Which interpretations of classic sci-fi fables hold sway with today’s powerful tech leaders?
An artist's rendering of an alien planet and a red star.
A Cambridge-based team claims to find molecules on an exoplanet that are only produced by life on Earth. Don't fall for the unfounded hype.
Illustration of a person walking inside a brain silhouette, overlaid on a close-up of closed eyes.
Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
A black and white photo of a bald man with a beard, reminiscent of a Christian Toetzke interview, is centered against a colorful abstract background featuring blue, yellow, and black geometric patterns.
The cofounder of Hyrox — one of the fastest-growing global brands in fitness — puts his snowballing success through a proper Big Think workout.
Illustration of three planets orbiting a star, with colored bands indicating the habitable zone; text reads "FINDING LIFE Habital Zone.
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"There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."
According to Stephen Hawking, spontaneously emitted radiation should cause all black holes to decay. But we've never seen it: not even once.
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Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.