Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Many scientists-turned-CEOs paradoxically abandon scientific principles when it comes to commercializing their innovations.

Music has the power to evoke a wide range of emotions. It can make us feel melancholy. Or it can fill us with hope. Music is often tangled up with memories and experiences, too. There's probably a ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

If you are glued to the Olympic coverage as I am, you are seeing the commercial from Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly's advertisement uses the scientific method as a narrative frame, drawing a par ...

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Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool. A key facet of scientific methodology is reproducibility. Essentially, good science should be easily ...

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

The Trump administration spent 2025 taking a sledgehammer to science, obliterating funding and reshaping agencies like the FDA and the National Institutes of Health through layoffs and restrictive new ...