The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn't true.

Somehow, the Universe began with just the right mix of cosmic ingredients to make life possible. It sure doesn’t seem likely. When you take stock of what’s in the Universe on […]

Big Think's eighth most popular video of the year reveals what the real future of war could look like.

In the middle of a great cosmic void, a single, isolated galaxy persists amidst the darkness. It’s about to get a lot lonelier. Here in our own cosmic backyard, the […]

Bill Moyers once said that a benefit of being a journalist is learning in public. This relies on two important skills: An ability to ask good questions and the willingness […]

The countdown continues! In this video, comedian Pete Holmes likens depression to quicksand and provides a method to help you cope and with it.

It’s absolutely true that atoms are mostly empty space. But removing even that empty space is impossible, and this is why. If you were to take any object in the Universe […]

The NICER experiment, designed to measure neutron stars as never before, just released their first pulsar map, and it’s amazing. After typical supernovae, remnant collapsed cores of matter are left behind. […]

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Man's best friend indeed.

The noted astronomer and author Carl Sagan came up with a famous dictum acronymed ECREE.

Dr. Charles Grob was the first researcher granted FDA approval to study these drugs.

Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.

The countdown is on for our top 10 videos of the year! Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? This video will teach you to have better conversations using 3 key design principles.

How the phenomenon of time dilation became very real to me … at a monastery.

Simple changes to your holiday decorations, gifting or travel can make the festive season more sustainable.

You cannot live on steak and avocados alone, says Jillian Michaels, in this divisive video.

Spoiler: Microbiomes in space!

To create the podcast series "Dolly Parton's America", Jad Abumrad and his producer Shima Oliaee took nine trips into the "Dollyverse"—that complex American multiverse of music and culture that surrounds country singer Dolly Parton. In this episode Jad and host Jason Gots talk about some of the astonishing discoveries he made along the way.

Our most talked-about video of 2019 features a lesson in nonsensical thinking from none other than Michio Kaku.