The science behind defeating one of Ninja Warrior’s toughest legendary obstacles! “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make […]

No matter how many times those who study power tell us that it is a negotiable — not static — thing, far too many people allow power to emerge and […]

A new study which explores impact craters in Argentine soil has found ancient remnants of plant life suggesting that asteroid strikes act to preserve evidence of life long after it has passed away. 

NASA today released this image of Gliese 832c, the closest potentially habitable exoplanet.  From NASA: This planet is only 16 light years away — could it harbor life? Recently discovered […]

From self-parking cars to voice-recognition software on smartphones, the ability of individual machines to learn from collected sets of data is the forefront of artificial intelligence research.

A Massachusetts company hopes to begin testing a remote-controlled contraceptive device next year with the goal of introducing it to the public by 2018. 

Think the Olympic Games and the World Cup are just about sports? Olympian Kelly Clark can attest to the goodwill that these global tournaments promote. “It’s been amazing as an […]

When startups look for investors, it's essential that the company put forward its best ideas, but that's increasingly being done without legal protections that prevent investors from taking those ideas for themselves.

CAMBRIDGE – Eurozone leaders continue to debate how best to reinvigorate economic growth, with French and Italian leaders now arguing that the eurozone’s rigid “fiscal compact” should be loosened. Meanwhile, […]

NEW YORK – Stories are most believable when they reaffirm our prior beliefs and assumptions. If not, we tend to find them implausible. A case in point is Eduardo Galeano’s […]

How does government regulate for the future? Big Think sat down with Former U.S. Representative Barney Frank at Exponential Finance, presented by Singularity University & CNBC to discuss this idea. […]

What’s powering the jets of material blasting into this galaxy’s disk? NASA explains: The spiral arms of bright, active galaxy M106 sprawl through this remarkable multiwavelength portrait, composed of image […]

When one black hole isn’t enough! Most galaxies just have one. But this one has three. NASA explains: The likely reason is that galaxy J1502+1115 is the product of the […]

Why would a cloud appear to be different colors? NASA explains: A relatively rare phenomenon known as iridescent clouds can show unusual colors vividly or a whole spectrum of colors […]

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – William Butler Yeats

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." – Honore de Balzac

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it." – Edith Wharton

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." – Rita Mae Brown

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." – Alfred North Whitehead

Every new cultural institution hopes for “The Bilbao Effect”—the economic boom the faltering, former industrial city of Bilbao, Spain, enjoyed after the 1997 rise of architect Frank Gehry’s game-changing design […]