Opinion: Given the dearth of women receiving the top science prizes, it’s time for the Nobel Committee to revamp how it awards great work. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b085233899fa20f71de722a/master/pass/mariagoeppertmayer-515489470.jpg
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Lessons from California Mudslides: Science’s Credibility Is At Stake
Opinion: Residents’ failure to follow evacuation orders in Montecito signal a loss of faith in science. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aece8f50b975d475fa7af80/master/pass/montecito-903512366.jpg
Meet the interstitium, medical science’s latest and largest organ candidate
Researchers saw cavities not known to human anatomy that look like what shock absorbers.
Richard Thaler wins the Nobel prize for economic sciences
THE credit-card bill arrives. You have enough money in a savings account to pay it off—the sensible thing to do, arithmetically speaking, since the interest rate on the credit-card balance far exceeds that earned on the savings. Yet you leave the savings untouched, and pay only as much of the bill as your current-account balance […]
Richard Thaler wins the Nobel prize for economic sciences
THE credit-card bill arrives. You have enough money in a savings account to pay it off—the sensible thing to do, arithmetically speaking, since the interest rate on the credit-card balance far exceeds that earned on the savings. Yet you leave the savings untouched, and pay only as much of the bill as your current-account balance […]
How Mentorship Looks Different in the Sciences
Every day, scientists pour their energy and effort into work that might prove to be life-changing, or a complete disappointment. It is a dynamic that can be difficult to sustain. And encouraging new scientists, even when the payoff of research might remain elusive for years, requires a specific type of guidance and encouragement. Allison Powell […]
Analysis of meta-analyses identifies where sciences’ real problems lie
(credit: Harvard University) Science is in a phase of pretty intense soul-searching. Over the past few years, systemic problems that lead to unreliable scientific results have become more and more obvious. There’s a litany of woes for good science: publication bias leads to buried data, single studies don’t stand well on their own yet not enough […]
People have no idea which sciences are robust
Enlarge / Imprecise (credit: Dean Calma / IAEA) If there’s one thing everyone needs to understand about science, it’s that science is uncertain. It’s a process of gradually getting closer to the truth, with self-correcting mechanisms built in. Unfortunately, communicating this uncertainty without undermining trust in science is tricky. People who hear that climate science has […]
