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The veteran economist joins Big Think to unpack the new rules of social media, explain tariffs, and recount his adventures in Albania.
The first galaxies were irregular blobs of gas and stars. But modern features, like spiral arms and bars, appeared earlier than expected.
The hunt for extraterrestrial life begins with planets like Earth. But our inhabited Earth once looked very different than Earth does today.
If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old today, but different ages the farther we look back, what does it mean for a star to be the first?
John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The COSMOS-Web has just finalized their release of their full field: larger and deeper than any other JWST program. Here's what's inside.
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.
When theory and experiment disagree, it could mean new physics. This time, they solved the muon g-2 puzzle, and saved the Standard Model.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.
In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.
For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here's why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.
"The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back."
The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.
As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
From bondage to freedom: Baruch Spinoza’s guide to the rational life.
In our Universe, dark matter outmasses normal matter by a 5-to-1 ratio, shaping the Universe as we know it. What if it simply weren't there?
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.