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 ...

Science still “sells” well on the internet. Influencers regularly hold scientific studies up to the camera, especially on platforms such as Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. But if you take a closer look ...

Philosophy of science treats knowledge as ever-evolving, rather than fixed in place. Scientific theories do not need to capture reality perfectly to be valuable; they need to work in context.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed an experimental method to induce a strong physiological response linked to psychological pressure by making participants aim for a streak of success in ...

Maybe you suspect there isn’t much to fish — and you could hardly be blamed for it. For centuries, Western natural philosophy ...

Communication must be viewed as more than the last step of the research process. It is the structure that makes scientific ...

In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Pizzagalli and colleagues present proof-of-principle analyses of immune cell motility ...

A new method uses microwaves to lower the energy required for certain industrial processes. Some industrial chemical ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

The team collected 17,000 photos and videos pulled from TikTok and the photo-sharing platform iStock using search terms ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb fuels debate as 3I/ATLAS sparks claims of a nuclear-powered alien spacecraft amid new images and rising ...

By Joseph Finora Most of us know that eugenics, the pseudoscience designed to “improve” the human race, might today be called ...