Earlier this year, Nature co-sponsored a science-fiction essay competition. According to runner-up Miles Lizak’s science-fiction essay, an ideal research institution would foster curiosity and ...

The other day during a math lecture, I raised my hand, and I asked a question — a stupid one. It was one of those questions that you regretted as soon as the words came out of your mouth. In that ...

Of all the ignorant, arrogant, pointless questions asked of a judicial nominee the one asked of Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday by Lindsay Graham hit a new low. I'm surprised because Graham is not a ...