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In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century.

Last month President Obama launched the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative to enable scientists to create a dynamic picture of brain function. 

How can physicists tackle the problem of achieving faster-than-light travel? 

Extremely lightweight materials allow developers to program a robot to do almost anything a real bird can do, from dives to back flips. 

The image above maps the location of more than 150,000 geocoded tweets that contained words deemed to be racist, homophobic or that targeted people with disabilities.

The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield just ended his command of the International Space Station, but not before the media-savvy commander issued a fitting sign-off: the first music video from space.

This image depicts the annual “ring of fire” eclipse crossing Queensland’s Cape York in northern Australia.   

High school student Jeff Bliss offers to give his teacher a lesson in the video below. The teacher tells Bliss he is wasting her time and he needs to leave the classroom.

The Bosco Verticale by Stefan Boeri Architects will have the same ecological impact as 10,000 square meters of forest.

Not humans, but computers, are endlessly trading parts of companies, and even generating hundreds of thousands of fake orders to fool other computers so that high frequency traders can take advantage of the confusion. 

False coloring is used in this image to reveal greater detail. The image here depicts mystery martian morphology.

Anyone on planet Earth can submit a haiku to be sent to Mars on the MAVEN mission. 

We at Big Think are thrilled to join the YouTube partner program with the launch of Big Think Mentor, a subscription channel designed to meet a growing demand among our audience to see the world-class ideas on Big Think transformed into actionable tools to improve their lives. 

This spectacular event occurs every year when the Moon nears the farthest point from the Earth making it appear too small to cover the sun, creating a ring of fire effect.

Mary Roach takes us on a tour through the alimentary canal to explain our biology from the perspective of bacteria. 

Stephen Hawking, who suffers from motor neurone disease, uses Israeli technology as part of a computer system that helps him function and communicate. 

Of all of the applications for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, food tends to be the most universally popular. 

How will the Singularity impact economic productivity?

David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, tells us how “humbling epiphanies” can be rewarding, even deeply pleasurable.

What is more important to address — long-term budget deficits or unemployment?

In today’s ever-changing and highly volatile world we have no shortage of predictions. What we do have is an accountability shortage. 

The first 3D-printed “Wiki Weapon” known as the Liberator is fired off. 

Dr. Frankenstein creates a creature called Spakesheare that immediately writes a play,Spamlet. Who is the play’s author? 

It is “human destiny” to go to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said today at the Humans 2 Mars Summit that is taking place this week at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

In the video below it takes a laser custom-made from a flashlight and the laser diode of a Blu-ray burner drive about 7 seconds to cut down 100 black baloons like dominos.

In today’s lesson, Ross Pomeroy explores how researchers are learning how the parasite is Toxoplasma gondii “weasels its way into the brain,” producing “some subtle and startling changes in the host’s behavior.”

This picture is not of an alien invasion. It is a thunderstorm cloud called a supercell that was photographed in Glasgow, Montana. 

The video below demonstrates the handiwork of DARPA-funded dexterous robotic hand hardware. The adaptable, adaptable, low-cost robots that can use a wide range of human tools to assist in dangerous defense missions. 

FDA Deputy Commissioner Michael Taylor called the growing trend of adding caffeine to snacks and energy drinks “very disturbing to us.”  

The picture above is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory over the course of the past year.