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 ...

History has a funny way of humbling us. The very innovations we now consider essential were once dismissed as absurd, impossible, or downright dangerous. Brilliant minds faced ridicule, rejection, and ...

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A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans. By Kevin Roose Casey Newton and Rachel Cohn The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines how the U.S. Department of Energy could use foundation models for scientific research, and finds ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ig Nobel Prize for biology is accepted by Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, ...

A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards ...

Rob Spiegel has covered technology since the dot com boom when he joined the thousands of journalists drinking from the firehose of upside-down business ideas. When the crash came, he moved to ...

The ACE Family's Catherine McBroom has accidentally inspired a new meme known as the Catherine Method after her ex-husband revealed a series of bizarre messages she sent. Catherine McBroom was best ...