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The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
British entrepreneur Simon Squibb made his fortune and retired — then amassed legions of followers by giving away sharp business advice for free.
While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
Our Universe doesn't just expand and cool, but the expansion itself is accelerating. Can stars form under such structure-erasing conditions?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.
Earth orbits the Sun while spinning on its tilted axis, with two annual occasions marking that maximal tilt. That's where solstices arise.
By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
The Department of Energy's newest mission seeks to make a unified AI platform across all national labs. Will it help US science, or kill it?
AI “eval” outfit Mercor is one of the fastest growing companies in history. But will their rocket run out of fuel? Big Think investigates.
Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.
Our Standard Model of the Universe, for both particle physics and cosmology, remains intact for now. When will its foundations crack?
To win over any audience you need to master “cut-through” — former TV and film actor Dominic Colenso wants to give you the secret sauce.
With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy's future comes into sharp, exciting focus.
It takes a wide variety of processes in the Universe to make all the elements that populate space today. We're still discovering new ones!
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.
As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.