Science & Society

  1. Science & Society

    Short memory can be good strategy

    Game theory reveals that there’s a limit to the effectiveness of relying on prior results to predict competitors’ behavior.

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  2. Math

    Evidence-based medicine lacks solid supporting evidence

    Saving science from its statistical flaws will require radical revision in its methods

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  3. Physics

    Nobel laureate finds beauty in science and science in beauty

    In ‘A Beautiful Question,’ Frank Wilczek explores links between math and art

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  4. Science & Society

    Why enforced ‘service with a smile’ should be banned

    If management wants workers to maintain false cheer, those workers should be trained, supported and compensated for the emotional labor, a new review suggests.

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  5. Science & Society

    How dollhouse crime scenes schooled 1940s cops

    In the 1940s, Frances Glessner Lee’s dollhouse murder dioramas trained investigators to look at crime scenes through a scientific lens.

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  6. Psychology

    Psychology results evaporate upon further review

    Less than half of psychology findings get reproduced on second tries, a study finds.

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  7. Science & Society

    A bot, not a Kardashian, probably wrote that e-cig tweet

    Some 80 percent of recent e-cigarette-related tweets were promotional in nature, raising concerns that the positive spin is targeting a young audience.

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  8. Science & Society

    Contentious science topics on Wikipedia subject to editing mischief

    Global warming and other politically charged issues are prime targets for sabotage on Wikipedia.

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  9. Science & Society

    Monster fish, forensics and space exploration on display

    Exhibits and opera infuse science into their experience.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Building standards aren’t to blame for chilly offices

    A recent study made headlines for finding differences between men and women in comfort level for heating and cooling. But that’s not why women are cold in the office.

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  11. Psychology

    Decision tree for soldiers could reduce civilian deaths

    A new, three-part decision formula may help soldiers save civilians’ lives.

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  12. Tech

    ‘Monsters’ examines a history of technological hubris

    Drawing on the Hindenburg disaster, a science writer develops criteria for recognizing risky technology.

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