Readers intent on enlightening me often send me books and essays written by them or, less often, others. Now and then one of these offerings grabs my attention before I hit “delete.” A recent example: ...

When you’re a leader or a manager, you might have a broad understanding of your team’s work but not its every detail. But when you’re asked a question that’s a few layers down from your level of ...

Betteridge's law of headlines, coined by journalist Ian Betteridge, states that questions in headlines can always be answered with "no." Not so! Some can be answered with "yes." Other question heads ...

After reading that question, what were you thinking about? The obvious answer is the color of your house. Though this exercise may seem ordinary, it has profound implications. The question momentarily ...

Given the bitterness of ideological battles in the modern world, it is important for social scientists to illuminate where the evidence lies and help explain the divergence between truth and fiction.

If the universe is just a Matrix-like simulation, how could we ever know? Physicist Silas Beane of the University of Bonn, Germany, thinks he has the answer. His paper “Constraints on the Universe as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...