In his pathbreaking book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that science does not advance by the simple accretion of knowledge through experimentation and observation. There ...

Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University and partners at Imperial College London have made a major breakthrough in understanding how individuals can have different ...

We consider humans to be at the apex of social cognition. But we're not the only animals that closely interact with each other. Marmosets, for example, are highly social creatures. In the wild, they ...

This blog series maps out the key elements of human knowledge to help folks make better sense of the world. The prior post (Part 2) introduced epistemology and shared Ken Wilber’s quadrant model. Here ...

Theory of mind is typically defined as the ability to understand the thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions of other people. This understanding allows individuals to predict how others will feel, ...

Nephrologist Fung (The Diabetes Code) takes a sweeping look at theories of and treatments for cancer, concentrating on three historical paradigms for explaining the disease’s cause. The first paradigm ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...