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“Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world.”

In his new book, the popular science writer tells the story of how scientists discovered the “gaseous ocean” we all swim in — and the trillions of invisible life forms we share it with.

Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.

The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.

Einstein’s general relativity has reigned supreme as our theory of gravity for over a century. Could we reduce it back down to Newton’s law?

Humans, when we consider space travel, recognize the need for gravity. Without our planet, is artificial or antigravity even possible?

The number of planets that could support life may be far greater than previously thought, a recent discovery suggests.

Nurture your passions instead.

AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.

Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.

A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.

In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.

Here’s the case for why science can’t keep ignoring human experience.

How to make sure our formative tendencies don’t derail us from being the great leaders we are trying to become.

Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.

Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.

Matt Strassler’s journey into fundamental physics culminates in a brilliant explanation of the Higgs field. Enjoy this exclusive interview.

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI’s potential as a new artistic medium.

One of the most promising dark matter candidates is light particles, like axions. With JWST, we can rule out many of those options already.

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

It’s difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.

Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.

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.

Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?

Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.

Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.

Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.