The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution.

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to encourage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death is one of the few questions science approaches with both rigor and humility. While it can’t speak to meaning or purpose, it ...

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is that reversal more dramatic than in medicine, where supernatural and moral ...

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 ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...