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Some of the biggest discoveries and insights changing our world for the better have happened at the University of Chicago. Meet the pioneering thinkers behind those big ideas on "Big Brains....
What if the way you relate to others isn’t fixed—but fundamentally changeable? In this episode, we speak with psychiatrist and neuroscientis...
What if we could predict the world’s most dangerous weather events—not days, but weeks in advance? Extreme events like heat waves, hurricane...
In recent years, a judge in one state had gained the power to halt policies across the entire United States. Known as nationwide or universa...
Artificial intelligence may live in “the cloud,” but its footprint is firmly on the ground. As AI systems grow more powerful, the data cente...
When a two-year-old boy suffered a catastrophic injury that severed the connection between his skull and spine, doctors across Europe told h...
In today’s world, our brains are overloaded with information, making it hard to focus and remember. But what are the true limits of the huma...
The process of understanding who we are is a lifelong journey for many of us. For two decades, that question has been one that University of...
What if we could precisely measure a cell at its most fundamental level? In this episode, we talk with the University of Chicago scientist P...
We've all heard the phrase "Manifest Your Destiny" when it comes to wanting a new promotion, figuring out a new career path or just trying t...
The internet and social media have transformed the way in which we hear and understand music today—and online communities and platforms from...
Can you imagine a world in which a wearable device, like a smartwatch, could move your fingers to strum the guitar or play the drums? That k...
More and more women in the United States are saying no to motherhood. In 2023, the U.S. fertility rate reached the lowest number on record....
What does it mean to see beneath the surface — of the human body, the brain, or even the universe itself? In his new book, The Future of See...
Few ideas have gripped the public imagination quite like the idea of the “psychopath.” From Hollywood thrillers to true-crime podcasts, popu...
For decades, neuroscience has promised breakthroughs in treating conditions like depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s. Yet despite pow...
Billions of years ago, Mars may have looked less like the barren red desert we know today and more like Earth—with a blue sky, flowing river...
We’re living in an attention economy—and most of us are broke. But what if the secret to restoring your focus, improving your mental health,...
We’ve long marveled at how efficiently plants convert sunlight into energy—but no one guessed they were using quantum mechanics to do it. In...
You’ve heard of plastic polluting oceans. But what if it’s polluting you—your brain, your reproductive system, even your unborn children? In...
Hello listeners…we're re-releasing one of our favorite Big Brains episodes—an incredibly insightful conversation with psychologist Adam Alte...
One of the benefits of producing this podcast at the University of Chicago is that there are often events on campus that bring in not just o...
For a more than a century, the Food and Drug Administration has worked to protect public health. In his research, Harvard University physici...
Prof. James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and data scientist, believes we’re training AI to think too much like humans—and it’s...
When someone we know or love starts to develop psychological issues, we don't often associate it with a form of dementia. However, this trai...
The search for life beyond Earth is no longer science fiction—it takes a lot of data, powerful telescopes and a bit of cosmic detective work...
Despite decades of policy ideas, pouring millions of dollars into the problem, and a slow pace of gun control measures, the United States ha...
What if a single number, derived from your DNA, could predict your income, education level or even who you're likely to marry? In his new bo...
When we lose someone, we love, we often say we have a broken heart—but what if that’s not just a metaphor? In her new book “The Grieving Bod...
New federal data paints a stark picture: American children are falling behind in reading and test scores, with the gap between advantaged an...
What does it mean to understand death? For centuries, philosophers have argued that only humans can truly comprehend mortality. But what if...
In 2000, the United States declared that measles had been eliminated. But just 15 years later, the disease made a comeback—and it hasn’t gon...
What makes a good life? For decades, psychologists have debated whether true fulfillment comes from happiness—a life of comfort and joy—or m...
Imagine a future in which Band-Aids talk to your cells, pacemakers are powered by light and your gut microbiome gets a tune-up—all thanks to...
Five years after COVID became a global pandemic, could another health crisis be on our horizon? According to scientists who study diseases,...
As we step into 2025, many of us are thinking about how to turn our New Year's resolutions into lasting changes. But what if the secret to s...
We have long heard the claims that a glass of red wine is good for your heart, but it turns out that the research that fueled this wisdom wa...
For centuries, death has been seen as a final, inescapable line—a moment when the heart stops and the brain ceases to function. But revoluti...
This year’s election might have been the most contentious in modern memory. It's not just that politics have changed, but it seems that peop...
What if we could predict the economy the way we predict the weather? What if governments could run simulations to forecast the effects of ne...
https://haarc.center.uchicago.edu/ We used to think aging inevitably led to memory loss, but a small group of people—known as SuperAgers—are...
On Big Brains, we get to speak to a lot of groundbreaking scholars and experts, but some conversations we walk away knowing we’ve just heard...
How old is the universe—and how fast is it expanding? These are part of one of the biggest—and most contested—questions in science, and the...
One of the biggest questions of every election is: What’s going on with young voters? There is endless speculation on the news about what yo...
More and more women in the United States are saying no to motherhood. Alarmingly, in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate reached the lowest number...
Race has played a huge role in the creation of mass homeownership in the United States. Discriminatory housing practices including redlining...
If you’ve spent any time playing with modern AI image generators, it can seem like an almost magical experience; but the truth is these prog...
In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity—electrical si...
Can you heal faster just by tricking your brain? Could you lose weight with only a change of mindset? Could you think yourself into being yo...
We've all been stuck at some point in our lives — whether we've been stuck at a job and wanting to make a career change, stuck in a location...
There is a science to what we remember and what we don't. For instance, why do we remember certain pieces of artwork, some brands’ logos, or...