Magazines

People who jump to conclusions are also more likely to endorse conspiracy theories, make bad bets, and be overconfident even when they're wrong. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-who-jump-to-conclusions-show-other-kinds-of-thinking-errors/

The Nobel committee is conservative. For many recent awards, the theoretical or conceptual breakthroughs have only been recognized when the predicted phenomena were unequivocally measured. The climate physics Nobel was overdue, but welcome. | Analysis https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyond-the-winners-nobel-prize-for-climate-science-is-a-victory-for-many1/

By using genetic data graciously provided by multiple communities across the Pacific, and by allowing them to shape research priorities, my colleagues and I have been able to “I ka wā mamua, ka wā ma hope,” or “walk backward into the future.” By @KeoluFox https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genomes-show-the-history-and-travels-of-indigenous-peoples/

Would you rather have a 500-kilogram piano dropped on you or 500 kilograms of foam balls? This is a rather precise analogy to our proposed planetary-defense method, which we affectionately call “PI” (pronounced like π), which is short for “Pulverize It!” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/planetary-defense-is-good-but-is-planetary-offense-better/