The Latest from Big Think

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Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
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Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
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NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
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Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
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To hallucinate means you must first perceive.
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There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
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The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn't mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
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Some of the world's most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
Michael Jordan and Mike Jordan, both impact players.
It’s not enough to nurture star players — the key is to cultivate everyone’s ability to collaborate and bring value.
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Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
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What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
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To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
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Former President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, unpacks the leadership strategy behind her success.
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So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
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Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.
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AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
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Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here's how some galaxies defy that rule.
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Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.