The common use of "tentative" is generally regarded as a negative adjective, roughly synonymous with indecisive. In contrast, it's widely considered to be a strength of science. A major legal decision ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...