An estimated 10 percent of the world's population doesn't have access to the Internet. Facebook's Connectivity Lab is trying to find a way to bring isolated communities online, but in order to do so, it needs to know where they live.

Experimentation-out-of-love is often inefficient and hard to measure. It isn’t always “solution-oriented." But it’s as necessary and natural to us as breathing, and all too easily swept under the rug. 

Novelist and "Life of Pi" author Yann Martel explains how travel confronts you with facts you cannot ignore and suggests that multilingualism makes us richer individuals.

It’s not in any form of light, and yet here we are, “seeing” the Universe all the same. “If the imprint is really due to gravitational waves from the big […]

The search for Planet Nine is on. The problem is scientists don't know where to start — it has an orbit of 10,000 to 20,000 years. However, a group of researchers from France may have narrowed the search area.

Is this a map of Europe's future?

Now that it’s seen gravitational waves, could physics beyond Einstein be its next target? This post is written by Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity & high energy […]

Chosen as host long before the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Chris Rock's prominent presence at the Academy Awards risks appearing as compensation for inequality in Hollywood.

Big Think is proud to partner with the 92nd Street Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival to bring you an in-depth look at the many qualities and characteristics of genius.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the tenets of encryption and privacy yesterday in an event in Spain. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was much more opaque when asked to describe his opinion.

Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.

“Scanning for signs of life” is a staple of science fiction. Could it be science, too? This post was written by Jillian Scudder. Jillian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics […]

Apple thinks the government is wrong to seek a "backdoor" to its operating system. Most Americans think the government is right.

NASA has teamed up with the International Potato Center (CIP) in an effort to find out if the potato will be part of the Mars mission.

Philosophy is a worthwhile endeavor, says Bill Nye the Science Guy, though the answers it offers are frequently limited by human rationality. Science, on the other hand, surprises us!

Why universities can no longer afford to access the research they created themselves.

The coffee pod design isn't sustainable, so the German city of Hamburg has placed a ban on government-run buildings from using “Kaffeekapselmaschine,” or coffee capsule machines.

For Women’s History Month 2016, take the #5WomenArtists challenge and test your (sexist?) art history knowledge.

We are far more worried about the problem of parents not vaccinating their kids than low general vaccination rates for flu, which will sicken and kill way more of us, including WAY more kids.

ReWalk announced a commercial health program that will provide coverage for a personal exoskeleton system. The beneficiary of this ReWalk exoskeleton is a surgeon who has been bound to a manual wheelchair for 11 hours a day at work.