Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.

Learn how a newly discovered 95-million-year-old Spinosaurus mirabilis used interlocking teeth to catch fish in an ancient ...

Exactly why Mr Trump suddenly turned on the Prime Minister’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and rent back the joint US-UK base is unclear. The US president had issued a tepid ...

If you’ve kept up with the Netflix series “The Lincoln Lawyer,” the fourth season of which is now streaming, you know that things start out with Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) facing big trouble.

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature ...