
Why Americans Love Baseball and Brits Love Soccer...er... Football
It's tradition, which is why imported or newly invented sports rarely find a foothold
Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American
It's tradition, which is why imported or newly invented sports rarely find a foothold
A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe
The power of modern programming languages is that they are expressive, readable, concise, precise, and executable
Our real work starts now, and we have a great deal to do over the coming years
An influential subset of psychiatrists argue—absurdly—that neuroscience has little clinical relevance
The continent's own CDC, formed in 2015, can play a major role
To help people grasp the cosmos through senses other than sight, a scientist and a team of chefs are creating simple, elegant (and edible) metaphors for some of the universe’s most complex ideas...
Scientific research doesn’t take place in a vacuum; it can only happen with society’s blessing
A New Horizons team member recalls a transformative moment in planetary science
The next Magellan, tomorrow’s Einstein might be more inspired by our ignorance than by our discoveries.