Opinion thrives on confidence. Evidence thrives on proof. This list brings together science-backed books that dismantle popular beliefs, challenge lazy thinking, and replace certainty with research.

China is tired of PhD students writing papers that no one reads and is demanding they build real products instead.

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...

I like to call this phenomenon the “inflation of education”, where the number of degrees is becoming inversely proportional to their value, and where quantity is overriding quality. Renowned ...

Tech sector volatility presents unique opportunities for income-focused investors to buy high-quality dividend payers with AI ...

The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters. By Alexandra Alter The mass market paperback, light in the hand and ...

Using the internet and then, later, internet culture used to be a rather nerdy thing. But ever since the introduction of the smartphone, where the internet wasn’t something that dwelled in your living ...

Mathematician whose work at the US Naval Weapons Laboratory was pivotal to the development of GPS ...

Several of the Google employees who pivoted into AI took years to prepare for the career transition.

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The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...