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Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.

The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.

Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?

Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?

There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.

In “The Headache,” Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain’s most enduring, and painful, enigmas.

A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”

The conversation you’re having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here’s why.

By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That’s utter nonsense here.

The comedian and musician behind the viral hit “BBL Drizzy” shares the books that shaped his thinking and approach to art.

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line. 

Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.

The veteran economist joins Big Think to unpack the new rules of social media, explain tariffs, and recount his adventures in Albania.

The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

“Personhood” credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?

Philosophy is often seen as little more than armchair speculation. This is a shame, as philosophy often has helped science reach new heights.

That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.

For centuries, vaccines have been the top life-saving, expert medical intervention known to humans. How can individuals make the right call?

Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.

In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel Mckee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”

When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.