Your willingness to admit what you don’t know often increases people’s trust in you, says this cognitive scientist.

S.E. Hinton (born Susan Eloise) made a striking debut as a writer in 1967, and at only 18 years old, with her groundbreaking ...

When you use an AI-engine to make something, let’s not pretend you created it. The software did — a technology trained on the ...

The team found that a 2%-3% starch-to-cheese ratio produced the smoothest, most uniform sauce; they recommend using powdered starch, rather than relying on an unknown amount of starch in pasta water.

Even if we feel we have some understanding of science, few of us have the time or the capacity to verify every claim made by ...

New research shows that elevation changes and earthquakes in Italy's Campi Flegrei volcanic area are caused by rising pressure in a geothermal reservoir -- not magma or its gases, as commonly thought.

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the ...

but they still have work to do. The Dallas Cowboys rose to the occasion during the NFL Draft and executed one of the best overall performances in recent memory. Each of Dallas' nine players ...

Daniel Kehlmann's 'The Director,' inspired by G.W. Pabst, grapples with the dangers of artistic complicity, in his case with ...

Andrea Long Chu on her new book, Authority; the so-called crisis of criticism; and how she chooses her subjects.