Challenging a 50-year-old narrative about Hawaiʻi's native birds, a new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

Science shows birth order doesn’t shape personality. Our traits come from genes, peers, and experience, not our place in the ...

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for ...

Despite criticism from the scientific community, his books sold almost 70 million copies in more than 30 languages.

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

Scientific knowledge advances through the interplay of empiricism and theory. Empirical observations of environmental ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...