In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences put forth a textbook-ish definition of "science": "The use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the ...

Carl Sagan famously defined science by saying, “Science, more than a body of knowledge, is a way of thinking.” How do you define science? Whether your definition is borrowed from someone else or one ...

In 1997, I stood in front of an fMRI scanner for the first time. I watched raw signal translate into living traces of thought, red and orange clouds floating on images of the brain. It felt like my ...