Science is concerned with finding the truth about the world. The best outcome in a scientific study is that it produces verifiable, replicable facts about the biological, chemical, physical, or ...

I have observed some worrisome trends that have motivated me to speak out on the virtues of science based thinking, and to write a textbook on The Science of Diversity. Oxford Dictionaries selected ...

I’ve just released the 13th iteration of the annual RHSU Edu-Scholar rankings, an exercise designed to recognize those who are bringing research, scholarship, and scientific expertise into the public ...

Editor's note: This essay was originally published in Discourse magazine. We are supposed to live in a post-truth world—I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The mathematician Hermann Weyl who made many ...