One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is “broken” or “in crisis.” In the mainstream press, some stories about the failure to reproduce study resu... Read more
Art advancing science at the nanoscale Like many other scientists, Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, is concerned that non-scientists have become skeptica... Read more
Giant pandas. Self-fertilizing plants. People. Lots of species have been proposed as “evolutionary dead ends” (though whether they actually are is another question). And now added to those r... Read more
IN December, Science published a paper claiming that people could change their minds about same-sex marriage after talking for just 20 minutes with a gay person. It seemed too good to be tru... Read more
Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation technique... Read more
Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperf... Read more
This talk marks the moment an innovation paradigm crossed the chasm to become an early adapter paradigm. Climate change did it 40 years ago… over the next 3-5 years End of Growt... Read more
Virtual presences manifesting in the physical world Connecting human thought to a machine is a pursuit that once only existed in science fiction, but now Swiss scientists have made the impos... Read more
Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral test... Read more
At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of sciences bi... Read more
Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change i... Read more
The emphasis is about helping students learn key concepts in science, rather than just facts American students need a dramatically new approach to improve how they learn science, says a note... Read more
Despite studying science, technology, engineering or math, many students avoid STEM careers. Higher salaries, improved status and apprenticeships would change that. The number of U.S. underg... Read more
This allows a fascinating peek into debates BACK when the scientific method was a radical new idea, and when science was the preserve of wealthy (or well-sponsored) gentleman amateurs, it wa... Read more
Science should be something that is disruptively accessible – empowering people from a variety of different backgrounds to explore, participate in, and build new ways of interacting with and... Read more
