In today’s polarized digital landscape, disagreement often leads to division rather than dialogue. But what if scientific thinking could help us navigate online noise, challenge our assumptions, and ...

The first woman scientist to win the Nobel Prize, Marie Curie, lived by the credo that scientific thinking could be of great value to society. She stressed that science education was the key to ...

Life is full of decisions. “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Knowledge” outlines methods of making choices rationally using scientific methods. Perlmutter says it's easy to fall ...

A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist walk into a classroom. Although it sounds like a premise for a joke, this was actually the origin of a unique collaboration between Nobel Prize–winning ...

Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.

Anaximander. By Carlo Rovelli. Translated by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead Books; 272 pages; $18. Allen Lane; £16.99 Of the three men usually credited with founding the disciplines of philosophy ...

A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of evolutionary biology, challenging entrenched paradigms and reshaping our understanding of how life evolves. The newly emerging Extended Evolutionary ...

Alice had sky-high GRE scores and terrific college grades, but as a graduate student in psychological science, she was lacking in one critical skill set: creativity. In her first year, she had ...

You wouldn’t use a hammer to try to cut down a tree. Try to use an axe to drive nails and you’re likely to lose a finger. Different physical jobs call for different tools. So, too, do different mental ...