Our collective perception of flame is clouded. When asked to picture a flame, most people probably envision an orange streak ...

In which I apologize that my videos sometimes lack nuance and explain why I think we are witnessing the failure of science.

(via Veritasium) Being better at math can make you worse at math problems, and it’s completely rational.

The latest research fraud scandal concerns one Eliezer Masliah. He’s one of the world’s leading researchers into Alzheimer’s ...

Uncertainty about the election getting to you? Is anxiety the dominant feature of your emotional landscape, maybe with a ...

Scientific magazines and websites have been raising quite the hubbub about the Amplituhedron, a geometric structure that can ...

Do black holes destroy information? Physicists have been trying to answer that question for decades, because the idea that ...

Uncertainty about the election getting to you? Is anxiety the dominant feature of your emotional landscape, maybe with a small sprinkling of impending doom? You are not alone. A ...

Despite numerous conferences, treaties, and commitments, the vision of a green economy remains elusive. The United States ...

Compared with just before the Covid-19 pandemic, people are spending nearly an hour less a day doing activities outside the ...

Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji, creators of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), held a press conference along with ...

The visible universe — all the potatoes, gas giants, steamy romance novels, black holes, questionable tattoos, and ...