The Trump administration has proposed and implemented substantial cuts to scientific research funding, which are expected to impact scientific progress profoundly. The administration has proposed ...

I’m in my 80s now, so I remember what life was like in the 1940s and 1950s. In those days, heart attacks hung like the Sword of Damocles. They took the lives of so many, and few knew what to do about ...

Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind to “solve intelligence” and then use that to “solve everything else.” Sam Altman promised that “the gains to quality of life from AI driving faster scientific progress ...

Representation matters in progress Scientific work benefits when teams draw from a wider range of lived experiences and problem-solving approaches. Groups that include women alongside men tend to test ...

This semester I am teaching philosophy of science to science educators. The class consists mostly of people who have studied ...