“Science owes much to both Christianity and the Middle Ages”

“Few topics are as open to misunderstanding as the relationship between faith and reason. The ongoing clash of creationism with evolution obscures the fact that Christianity has actually had a far more positive role to play…

“After Tim Hunt: another science is possible”

“Yet more people join the debate and perhaps understandably position themselves as a calm “reasonable” and “balanced” position (though not always checking whether or not the scales they’re checking the balance on are rigged). There are calls to “be…

“The Science of ‘Inside Out’”

“Those quibbles aside, however, the movie’s portrayal of sadness successfully dramatizes two central insights from the science of emotion.

First, emotions organize — rather than disrupt — rational thinking. Traditionally, in the history of Western…

“Neural constraints on learning”

“The activity of a neural population can be represented in a high-dimensional space (termed the neural space), wherein each dimension corresponds to the activity of one neuron. These characteristic activity patterns [of the recorded neural population in a brain at rest]…

“John Ioannidis has dedicated his life to quantifying how science is broken”

“If medical research is hopelessly flawed, Ioannidis is the superhero poised to save it. For the past two decades, the physician-academic has used meta-research — or research on research — to…

“Let Physics Be the Dream It Used To Be: Or, how to make physics fun”

“I was supposed to be enjoying the wonders of physics! Because physics is super fun when your study group is treating you like a low-IQ charity case because while they were enjoying leisurely study time in the…

“FATTAH NEUROSCIENCE INITIATIVE”

“The initiative aims to coordinate research across [US Federal] agencies and draw upon public-private partnerships and the world of academia. The initiative promotes research and discovery across brain cognition, development, disease and injury…

“Choose Beauty”

“In a post race interview Roux was quoted as saying, “When he passed me, I had the impression that it was a motorcycle at my side. It was beautiful to see.”

It was beautiful to see? Can you imagine that you have been riding as hard as you can, drawing on every fiber of your…

“Pfizer And Lilly Preparing To Resume Phase 3 Chronic Pain Program For Tanezumab”

“In the prior clinical studies of more than 11,000 patients, tanezumab demonstrated clinically meaningful efficacy vs. placebo and other select commonly used pain medicines. A partial…

“You are when you eat: A new study finds that limiting flies to specific eating hours protected their hearts against aging”

“In a new study published today in Science, researchers at San Diego State University and the Salk Institute for…