A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
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The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?
Laughing gas may be far more effective for some than antidepressants.
Today’s popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.
Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.
The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it’s real.
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
We all know that work-life balance can be difficult, but do we make it harder on ourselves by how we choose to conceptualize the idea? More specifically, is the concept […]
Learn to spot the scientists who are searching for the truth rather than money, ego, or fame.
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
You’ve heard of Stephen Hawking. Ever heard of Renata Kallosh? Didn’t think so.
Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]
Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
Join Big Think’s co-founder and president Peter Hopkins in conversation with Professor Linda Hill on what it takes to be a boss during COVID-19.
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Conducting a thorough needs analysis requires care, curiosity, and open-mindedness.
From mobile learning to microlearning, these five methods for training employees are some of the most effective in the modern world of business.
Plato, Sun Tzu, and Buddha all lived in a “golden age” of philosophy that laid the foundation of modern thought.
A new episode of “Your Brain on Money” illuminates the strange world of consumer behavior and explores how brands can wreak havoc on our ability to make rational decisions.
To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn’t if it’s going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
At first blush, the damages done by sexual harassment seem obvious. Make that incredibly obvious. Such behavior exposes our organizations to legal consequences and the subsequent financial fallout. And in […]