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Stephen Johnson
Executive Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.
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A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of "Pikachu," a well-loved Tabby, into space.
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
It marks a major shift in the government's battle against the opioid crisis.
In most states, LGBTQ Americans have no legal protections against discrimination in the workplace.
"Earth" features about 30 of the biggest names in entertainment.
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
The map shows the movements of seven different wolves over the course of a season.
Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
"We inject one tumor and we see all of the other tumors just melt away."
"Think R2D2," Walmart wrote in a press release. Others are thinking "layoffs."
2019 is on track to becoming a record-high year for measles cases in the U.S.
The 2020 presidential candidate said companies like Amazon should "pay their fair share" as automation begins to displace human workers.
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
That's the strategy behind a program being tested in one Indiana school district.
IF your goal is to persuade people, that is.
A recent study could help improve treatments for PTSD, anxiety and phobias.
Monsanto just lost a major court battle to a man who said he developed cancer after using Roundup.
The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.
One group of women still seem to benefit from the popular diet.
On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.