W e naturally like tidy answers to our more fundamental, or even troubling, questions about Nature and existence.  In genetics we want to fi...

I t often happens in science that our theory of some area of reality is very precise, but the reality is too complex to work out precisely,...

T he news is properly filled these days with reports of studies documenting various very mysterious aspects of the cosmos, on scales large a...

T he old Rumsfeld jokes about the knowns and unknowns are pretty stale by now, so we won't really indulge in beating that dead horse.  B...

F or several years, I've been in an off-and-on discussion about topics relevant to MT readers, with a thoughtful undergraduate student, ...

S cientists often talk about how complex their field is, and of course often they are right.  But a word like 'complexity' may be us...

"T he human mind possesses a basic probabilistic knowledge."  So say Fontanari et al. in a newly published paper in PNAS ("P...

Well, NASA's done it again.  They've found another exciting planet lurking in the depths of near space.  This time, the BBC  proclai...

Yesterday we discussed the problems facing genetic and environmental epidemiology (and, though we did not say it, many other fields of scien...

Marcello Truzzi , sociologist and founder or co-founder of a number of organizations investigating extraordinary claims, is said to have coi...