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If the Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov has his way, we will be able to trade our bodies in forholograms and have computerized brains in 32 short years.  

Taking questions from readers online at The Guardian today, whistleblower Edward Snowden said the government can’t stop the truth from getting out, even if he is jailed or murdered. 

“We’re seeing an unprecedented epidemic of depression in our society,” says Dr. Andrew Weil, “More people are being diagnosed with depression than ever, including millions of children.  The latest statistics […]

Beveridge did what he loved, followed his dream, and ended up beating the odds. Maybe his success is not such a fluke after all. 

We have a misconception that making things “isn’t knowledge work and it isn’t about ideas.

Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court majority, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that Myriad Genetics Inc. did not invent anything when it isolated two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. 

These tracks, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are thought to have been created from sliding dry ice on the Red Planet’s Russell Crater. 

An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall yesterday and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing. 

An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing. 

Three Oxford academics will be stored after death at a cryogenic preservation facility until technology catches up. 

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says media cover of the NSA Intercepts has been hyperbolic.

If we are able to create enough wealth for everyone on the planet to live full, healthy lives, can we do so without producing catastrophic damage to the planet or to ourselves?

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released a video that captured multiple ‘sun tornadoes,’ or plasma moving across the sun’s surface. 

The sushi restaurant chain YO!Sushi has introduced a flying drone server at its flagship restaurant in London.

While Congress is bickering, we want to know what you think: should there be a legal pathway to citizenship for people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally?

This NOAA satellite image shows the tropical storm Andrea making its way up the East Coast.

Teenage hyper-polyglot Tim Doner speaks 20 languages, which he says often makes him become “a different person.”

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a brain-computer interface that allows a person to guide a flying robot with their thoughts. 

Is poor food disposal really akin to stealing?

Just as business travelers essentially subsidize other travelers by paying the highest rates for commercial airfare, these celebrity boondoggles in space are funding the growth of NewSpace. And all humanity could benefit. 

This image, courtesy of Reporters Without Borders, rates countries based on the state of freedom of the press. 

A procedure makes eating sollid food so painful that dieters will be forced to stick with a liquid diet. 

Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes joined us for a Google+ hangout to discuss ideas from her Big Think Mentor workshop of the same name.

In about 15 years we’ll be able to indefinitely extend life, says futurist Ray Kurzweil in a special appearance in the electro House musician Steve Aoki’s new video “Singularity.” 

Is DNA sampling just a 21st century version of fingerprinting, or a violation of our rights?  

You can learn powerful habits of mind from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. 

Do PFC Bradley Manning’s actions constitute ‘aiding the enemy’?

On the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, creative protests are popping up around the Web as well as on the ground in mainland China. 

A German drone narrowly missing a collision with an Afghan commercial aircraft carrying 100 passengers.

Since late April, the not-for-profit organization, Mars One, has been flooded with applications for a one-way ticket to colonize Mars in 2023.