Often held up as a beacon of liberal democracy, West Germany experienced a “spasm of magical thinking” in the decades following World War II. Between 1947 and 1956, there were 77 witchcraft trials, ...

Something is either right or wrong. Right? Source: Jean-Christophe André/Pixels An essay in The New York Times, “Joe Rogan Is a Drop in the Ocean of Medical Misinformation,” made an excellent point in ...

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 ...

Astrophysicist and author Hakeem Oluseyi talks with cosmologist Janna Levin in a new 10-episode podcast series, Particles of Thought, from GBH and the producers of NOVA. In August 2025, 2,171 ...

When most people think about science, they conjure images of pipettes, sterile equipment, and people in white lab coats. But science is a messy and human endeavor driven by obsession, courage, and ...

Scientists who think of their research as being high-risk are especially aggressive in their quest for funding, finds a survey of more than 4,000 US-based academics 1. Risk is a fundamental but ...

Science is a method for generating knowledge about the way things work; it is not, by itself, a foolproof way of solving problems. Because words are imperfect tools even when used by scientists, we ...