There is little to show for all the time and money invested in genomic studies of cancer, says Robert Weinberg — and the approach is undermining tried-and-tested ways of doing, and of building, ...

Falling in love with a single theory can cut off fruitful avenues of enquiry. Here's how to keep your mind open. The clamour in a Panamanian rainforest is deafening to human ears: bugs shriek, birds ...

Blogs are not typically places where professors post views about arcane matters. But blogs have the advantage of providing places to convey quick messages that may be of interest to selected parties.

Generalizing hypothesis is a description of a pattern Explanatory hypothesis is about the mechanisms that explain the pattern One such problem is that in science education, mechanisms are rarely ...

If science is an objective means of seeking truth, it’s also one that requires human judgments. Let’s say you’re a psychologist with a hypothesis: People understand that they may be biased in ...