"OK, but still, if science is just observation, then all forms of knowledge are science." - This is a tricky one, but the answer is crucial to understanding my point. A few hundred years ago, the word ...

What is science? It’s the methodical investigation of the natural world. Here, a geologist obtains a sample of molten lava. Image via Bob Tilling/ USGS (PDM 1.0). Science is a way of learning about ...

If you do research and don’t publish it, is it science? That’s the question at the heart of an ongoing debate on X between entrepreneur Elon Musk and pioneering computer scientist Yann LeCun. Over the ...