Despite significant mathematical refinements, econometrics has shown the weaknesses of its logical underpinnings, primarily during economic turning points—financial crises, pandemics, and geopolitical ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

For more than a century, economists have tried to reduce economics to a series of mathematical equations and statistical ...

Anxiety is one of those words that means a hundred different things depending on who’s using it. A clinical disorder. A mood. A personality trait. A vague feeling that you don’t understand but ...

For over a decade, confusion over the size of the proton has held scientists back. Disagreeing measurements of the subatomic particle’s radius meant that scientists couldn’t test one of their key ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

Given the massive fanbase that Final Fantasy has accrued over the years, it’s no surprise that plenty of fans have their own theories about how the franchise’s mystical resources actually work. With ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2020. Misconceptions can continue to influence their recipients despite ...

Bangladesh issued a strong call for scaled-up youth-led and locally driven adaptation at COP30, using a high-level event at the Bangladesh Pavilion to showcase lessons from the Local Government ...

Surveys are a primary source of data across the sciences, from medicine to economics. I demonstrate that the assumption that logically coherent responses are from humans is now untenable. I show that ...

This article introduces the Black Sea Battle Lab (BBL) logic model, a framework designed to trace how Ukraine’s operational responses to Russia’s invasion link strategic pressures to measurable ...

We develop a search-based theory of mergers and acquisitions with heterogeneous firms and endogenous search complementarities. We use this model to understand how merger incentives and the firm size ...