The Latest from Big Think

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How two seemingly distinct exoplanet systems turned out to be related. Practically every star in the Milky Way has a similar origin story. At some point in the past, a molecular […]
Quantum theory has weird implications. Trying to explain them just makes things weirder.
An analog clock dissolves against a black background.
Everyone has pondered what they would do with an extra hour a day. Would they get more sleep or spend more time with family? Spend time on a side project […]
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
If you want to find life in the Universe, this is how you do it. When it comes to uncovering the ultimate truths about reality, we can only reap what we […]
The experience of life flashing before one's eyes has been reported for well over a century, but where's the science behind it?
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.
A brief passage from a recent UN report describes what could be the first-known case of an autonomous weapon, powered by artificial intelligence, killing in the battlefield.
Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for "double sweet") has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
Watch the plasma slide down the prominence like a roller coaster! Our Sun, despite it’s outward appearance as a perfectly hot sphere, is anything but uniform. When take a closer look […]
She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
Milgram's experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?
As the American population grows, fewer people will die of cancer.
An artist’s impression of what the fully-deployed James Webb Space telescope will look like from the perspective of an observer on the ‘dark’ (non-Sun-facing) side of the observatory. (NORTHRUP GRUMMAN) […]
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.