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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.
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
“You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today.”
We see objects whose light only arrives just now. But we see them as they were in the past: when that now-arriving light was first emitted.
Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.
Featuring SpaceX’s “Mechazilla,” a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.
“Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world.”
A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.
Our Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a “lumpy” Universe be at fault?
In 1900, the UK clearly was the richest country in Europe. That’s no longer the case.
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Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Temple Grandin’s story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.
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.
A recent measurement has simultaneously settled an ongoing scientific debate while puzzling scientists.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
One alchemist’s search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
It’s not only the gravity from galaxies in a cluster that reveals dark matter, but the ejected, intracluster stars actually trace it out.
With undersea cables, AI education, and more, the tech giant is helping create Africa’s “digital decade.”
The Malling-Hansen writing ball, with its potential and limitations, redefined Nietzsche’s philosophical and creative expression.
Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.
The nation-state had a good run, but its usefulness may have come to an end.
MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.
You’re a moody person. You have to be — because understanding moods philosophically can be crucial to your work-life.
Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?
An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.