If you’d like to pursue being a researcher or scientist by profession, it’s helpful to understand the best way to develop hypotheses and test them to determine results. And even if you don’t decide to ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. This week, the spotlight is on the scientific method: As the world scrambles to deal with ...

I am part of a small group of friends, many of whom, like myself, attended a boarding school outside of Princeton, New Jersey in the early 1970s. The leader of this group sends emails that contain ...