Since the publication of my book, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, I've given several interviews, and during each one I've been asked to elaborate on a term I used in ...

Looking at the latest science can help you make informed decisions, but it’s important to look at the broader context and assess the strength of the evidence when using science to inform decisions.

With the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering schools, as a parent, you may be looking for fun and easy ways to help teach science to your kids at home. Or maybe your family just spent the summer outdoors ...

Do you feel like nutritionists are always changing their minds? Do you want science-based information about diet but don’t know whom or what to believe? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not ...

Nearly half of our daily activities are performed out of habit, occurring with minimal conscious thought. These automated behavioral patterns, ranging from morning routines to evening scrolling, ...

Brandon Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution; an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

Since the days of Plato, thinkers have wrestled with what makes for a just society, and whether the responsibility for justice rests with the individual or with government. Over the centuries, those ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has mobilized the world’s scientific community like no other recent crisis, including many researchers using the most modern data science and artificial intelligence approaches.

Test your science knowledge by taking the interactive quiz. The short quiz tests your knowledge of questions recently asked in a national poll. After completing the quiz, you can compare your score ...