Big Think expert Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, issued a statement responding to a scientist’s recent claim that he helped create the world’s first genetically edited babies.
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Disagreements are inevitable — we all have different experiences that lead us to be who we are and to what we believe. Almost as inevitable are distrust, suspicion, and even […]
Everyone wants to predict who will win the 2020 presidential election. Here are 2 misconceptions to bust so people don’t proclaim the death of data like they did in 2016.
After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as […]
Here’s why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
As Chief Learning Officer at Degreed and former Chief Learning Officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer has thought a lot about architecting effective learning environments for employees seeking to grow their […]
Sophists used rhetoric and debate to arrive at practical truths.
Cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand says that our attitudes toward rules have a lot to do with who we are and with the type of environment we find most comfortable. She’s […]
Parenting could be a distraction from what mattered most to him: his writing.
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
Let noted cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker introduce you to psychology.
Scientists may have seen a way to cure a maddening symptom of hearing loss.
Pandemic-inspired housing innovation will collide with techno-acceleration.
The statistics for American adults aren’t that much better.
Young people could even end up less anxiety-ridden, thanks to newfound confidence
The multifaceted cerebellum is large — it’s just tightly folded.
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
The confidence and respect that successful executives enjoy isn’t simply conferred upon them by their job title. It’s the knowledgeability they project, the manner in which they conduct themselves, and […]
That question is at the heart of the new documentary, “Medicating Normal.”
The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A “heat death” is coming, but it’s not what you think.
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From ultra-realistic graphics to more intelligent A.I. characters, the 2020s will bring some mind-bending video games.
A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.
Johann Hari knows that mental health is really a social issue.
They said the “missing half” of the Universe’s matter was just found. But what they found barely makes a dent to the big picture. When we look up into the great […]
American homes are big and polluting. Here’s how to fix that.
The new podcast is a deep dive into human nature.
Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.
The virus is unlike anything many people have ever experienced.
A comprehensive interdisciplinary paper removes any doubt that orcas don’t belong in marine parks and zoos.