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The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.

It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.

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

When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.

All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang long ago. The Universe was never empty, not even before that.

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.

Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.

The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?

In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.

Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.

Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.

When we divide matter into its fundamental, indivisible components, are those particles truly point-like, or is there a finite minimum size?

Going against the grain is often difficult — but necessary for outperformance over the long-term.

Retrofitting America’s aging dams for hydropower — while removing ecologically harmful ones — may be a productive path forward.

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The color of the shirt you’re wearing right now depends on many factors, from your eye shape to what language you speak.

Investor Guy Spier joins Big Think for a chat about the “Oracle of Omaha,” generative AI, what confuses him, and more.

Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.

Temple Grandin’s story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.

Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.

Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.

Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.

“Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking.”

The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.

Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.

Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.