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 ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Scientists have developed a blood test that could predict Alzheimer's symptoms years in advance using p-tau217 protein levels ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Cleaner wrasse have revealed a remarkable new side of fish intelligence. Marked with fake parasites, they used mirrors to ...

BEACON's initiatives will include a benchmarking think-tank to promote methodological coherence and thought leadership, and an open platform that runs challenges, engages communities, and provides ...

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

A small coral reef fish can recognize itself in a mirror. This discovery challenges long-held ideas about animal intelligence ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

It is the heart and soul of everything. The soul of man, I mean. Whether we are all just a composite of atoms wandering about in an existence that touches, ...