The Latest from Big Think

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cosmic rays
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here's how they prove Einstein's relativity.
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Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
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If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it's a JWST image or any other observatory.
quantum communications
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what's the reason why?
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
A woman in a red dress is gracefully ice skating on a frozen lake.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
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Practical lessons from a year of building leadership frameworks, programs, and partnerships.
A man with a beard and glasses smiles as he holds a paper airplane in an office setting, savoring life’s simple joys.
In an age of polycrisis, argues leadership coach Lisa Bennett, we should spend less time trying to save the world — and focus on savoring it instead.
An artist's impression of an ultra high energy cosmic ray.
The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.
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Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
Simon Squibb, a middle-aged man in a blue shirt, stands outdoors in an urban setting, holding a small microphone with his arms crossed.
British entrepreneur Simon Squibb made his fortune and retired — then amassed legions of followers by giving away sharp business advice for free.
JADES galaxies
While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
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Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
A nebula in space glows with bright purple, pink, and blue hues, surrounded by stars and cosmic dust where new stars form in our expanding universe.
Our Universe doesn't just expand and cool, but the expansion itself is accelerating. Can stars form under such structure-erasing conditions?
Aerial view of a river delta with branching waterways, shaped by natural intelligence, flowing into the sea and surrounded by green and brown land.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Top-down view of assorted wild mushrooms arranged in a circle with beige and orange cutout shapes on a black background.
Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.
Diagram illustrating Earth's orbit around the Sun, showing the tilt of Earth's axis, the seasons, equinoxes, solstices, and directions to celestial poles.
Earth orbits the Sun while spinning on its tilted axis, with two annual occasions marking that maximal tilt. That's where solstices arise.