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Today’s popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.

It’s good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.

The nonprofit made a bold gamble on the limits of “fair use” — and federal courts have not backed their play.

This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.

From high school through the professional ranks, physicists still take incredible lessons away from Newton’s second law.

Speeding through the Universe and leaving a wake of new stars, this runaway supermassive black hole is likely the first among thousands.

The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.

Can the top quark, the shortest-lived particle of all, bind with anything else? Yes it can! New results at the LHC demonstrate toponium exists.

For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?

Originally, the abundance of bright, early galaxies shocked astronomers. After 3 years of JWST, we now know what’s really going on.

Kathryn Harkup, chemist and author of V Is for Venom, joins Big Think to discuss why Christie isn’t just a brilliant writer but a unique science communicator.

From empowerment to intellectual humility, these executive leadership skills are invaluable to an organization.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?

Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes.

There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.

In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.

Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.

Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.

Business acumen training can help everyone from individual contributors to directors learn how to seize opportunities for growth.

Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.

In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.

The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.

Caption:“At this time in Mars’ history, we think CO2 is everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and water percolating through the rocks is full of CO2 too,” Joshua Murray says.

In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?

The most common visual depictions of the history of the Universe show the Big Bang as a growing tube with an “ignition” point. Why is that?

Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.