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And the winner is … a tale about a parallel universe-hopping psychopath

At an April 9th event sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and produced by Scientific American that honored Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, economist Paul Romer talked about how the social system of science offers hope for humanity and for how we can live with each other.

A former student of the influential philosopher defends him against filmmaker Errol Morris’s “character assassination” 

The popular medical drama gets it right—with a little romance on the side, naturally

Sci-fi has anticipated many scientific and technical breakthroughs—many of which never happened

English lacks some words that other languages pack with meaning.

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

A famous dictionary cites the magazine for new words and new meanings of old words

Tracking the location and mood of 15,000 people, researchers found that scenic beauty was linked to happiness—including near urban sights like bridges and buildings. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Study finds newspaper closures are linked to partisanship

We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex.

Filmmaker Errol Morris, once Kuhn’s grad student, accuses him of being a bad philosopher and bad person.