A shift away from the individual expert as a source of scientific knowledge and authority is proposed by researchers in a recent scholarly paper, published in the open-access journal Social ...

In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences put forth a textbook-ish definition of "science": "The use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the ...

In 1997, I stood in front of an fMRI scanner for the first time. I watched raw signal translate into living traces of thought, red and orange clouds floating on images of the brain. It felt like my ...

Carl Sagan famously defined science by saying, “Science, more than a body of knowledge, is a way of thinking.” How do you define science? Whether your definition is borrowed from someone else or one ...

A shift away from the individual expert as a source of scientific knowledge and authority is proposed by researchers in a recent scholarly paper, published in the open-access peer-reviewed journal ...