The data points we choose to focus on determine how we see the world | Continue reading
Research shows it's not helping, but solutions do exist | Continue reading
Surprisingly, the study of leadership and management is often more reliable than much of medical research | Continue reading
Their ability to adapt can help guide how we respond to a warming world | Continue reading
That might be a warning | Continue reading
The country is in a mental health crisis, and nobody is really in charge | Continue reading
Since Newton, the foundations of physics progressed in a virtuous cycle of hypothesis and experiment until the cycle broke 40 years ago. A bigger collider will not solve the problem | Continue reading
Looking at circumstances beyond the clinic is a key to better outcomes | Continue reading
Our conversations have been stuck, but a new book lays out a number of ways to get them flowing productively | Continue reading
NASA is building a launch system that could lead to discoveries as profound as what Darwin learned during his journey on a British navy vessel | Continue reading
Our consciousness gets in the way of thinking about evolution | Continue reading
Philosopher Jacob Stegenga, author of a scathing critique of medicine, discusses vaccines and his own health | Continue reading
What spectators' gaze reveals about the conjuring arts | Continue reading
In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil | Continue reading
What if our natural satellite didn’t exist? | Continue reading
Because sometimes tools designed to help us assess performance and potential just don’t | Continue reading
It can break down the barriers that separate experts from the rest of us | Continue reading
It’s an uncomfortable feeling, but it pushes us to seek a deeper understanding of the world around us | Continue reading
Scientists are taught to vary one factor at a time, but a so-called multifactorial approach could be more reliable | Continue reading
Some 70 years before the Apollo 11 landing, a malevolent natural satellite first landed on the big screen | Continue reading
The coating known as “varnish” that covers rocks in the American Southwest could offer important clues | Continue reading
Autism doesn’t have to define a person’s identity | Continue reading
Research shows that acquiring additional skills can be a terrific way to keep an aging brain in shape | Continue reading
They found ways to develop human intellect, including in students thought to have limited prospects | Continue reading
Objective measures of pain could help alleviate inequitable medical treatment | Continue reading
The federal government must step up funding of science and technology R&D | Continue reading
College lecture classes have been around for more than 900 years. Lately, a handful of science and engineering professors have been experimenting with a more innovative way of teaching science, especially at the introductory level. | Continue reading
A resident physician investigates the causes of skyrocketing tuition | Continue reading
My dad worked for NASA, recruited John Glenn and knew Neil Armstrong | Continue reading
A newly named dinosaur balanced on one toe of each foot | Continue reading
Analysis of ancient genes changes what researchers expected about giant sloth evolution | Continue reading
These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics | Continue reading
Precisely when and where eclipses occur is a complicated business | Continue reading
A landmark meeting in 1987 promised that high-temperature superconductors would change the world. No one realized how long it would take | Continue reading
My father was one of those who worked feverishly behind the scenes 50 years ago to get astronauts safely to the moon and back | Continue reading
How the Lunar Laser Retroreflector, still operating 50 years later, ended up going to the moon | Continue reading
As the U.S. and China vie for global influence, AI will be central to the balance of power | Continue reading
The ancient thinker saw limits to what natural science can tell us about ourselves | Continue reading
But only because we have had access to health care, emotional support and institutional backing | Continue reading
Human organs on a chip might be able to cure what ails pharma R&D | Continue reading
One way is to attack the inconvenient truths in the authoritative National Climate Assessment | Continue reading
“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness | Continue reading
Nobody has lukewarm feelings about Antarctica, and some people don’t fit in anywhere else | Continue reading
The recent controversy over a constellation of SpaceX satellites echoes a similar uproar that happened back in the early 1960s | Continue reading
Well, more specifically their footprints. New research finds that elephants create foot-shaped habitats for breeding frogs as they travel through the forest in Myanmar. | Continue reading
State leadership is failing its citizens—and there will be a body count | Continue reading
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