Raw Story breathlessly reports that a researcher is experimenting with dangerous drugs to stop girls from growing up to be lesbians: "Afraid your daughter may be queer, or not be […]

Science fiction writer Catherine Asaro is also a ballet dancer and a math teacher who believes thatphysics and dancing are much more closely related than you might think

Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati doesn't buy it when businesses today say they are "customer-centric"—because any company will say that they are. "It's a platitude," says Gulati. "There’s confusion […]

Albert Einstein once said something very profound. He said the Universe could have been chaotic, random and ugly—and yet we have this gorgeous synthesis at the origin of the Universe […]

Amit Chatterjee, the CEO and founder of Hara Technologies, consults with companies all across the country about how to go green. He stopped by Big Think recently to talk about […]

From falling prey to expectations to taking advice from friends, an understanding of our cognitive evolution helps us avoid misperceiving the limits of our knowledge.

Cognitive science reveals that policymakers should better understand how deeply our decisions are influenced by the presentation of choices.

From elaborate dancing displays to incredibly attractive armpits, the animal kingdom is full of colorful ways for males to woo mates.

There are morphological indications that we're somewhere between a species meant to pair bond and our polygamist evolutionary relatives.

Our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, leave scientists puzzled over the origins of human sexual behavior.

Our ability to learn from others is crucial for the evolution of cumulative technologies, but often paralyzes our causal intuition.

Why our prejudices may be deeply ingrained in our evolutionary development.

Why Wall Street investors may think more like monkeys than we might have imagined.

Scientists had to consider how primates think in order to develop the right experiments to study them.

A conversation with the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University.

Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, thinks journalists need to better explain that the U.S. is partially responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan.

Cities' ability to store heat means they are typically warmer than their surrounding areas. Given climate change, this could mean the end of cooler nights and more frequent heat waves.

Despite the Cold War mystique surrounding alleged Russian spies living within the U.S. under "deep cover", Al Jazeera reports that spying is an eternal art, valuable to a nation no matter the epoch.

Garrison Keillor extrapolates the three stages of life from three generations casually standing on a street corner: Defenselessness, Cluelessness and finally Helplessness.

While surveillance that results in a speeding ticket may curb our wayward morals, Internet surveillance has no such benefit. Beware the illusion of your public persona, says The Economist.