Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments ...

Decentralized prediction markets are gaining ground in the scientific world, offering an intriguing answer to the field’s ongoing reproducibility crisis. While a notable share of research findings ...

Ever stumble across an old science fiction novel and realize the author basically nailed our present? There's something deeply unsettling about discovering that wild, seemingly impossible ideas from ...

University of Missouri researchers have released the world’s largest collection of protein models with quality assessment — a groundbreaking new resource that could accelerate drug development for ...

Ideosphere wants to redirect crypto’s speculative energy into scientific prediction markets, betting on research results that would finance scientific research. The co-founders of the decentralized ...

Paul Ehrlich died a few days ago at age 93. Few intellectual failures in modern history have been as spectacular—or as consequential—as his predictions of imminent global mass starvation. When the ...

In a Policy Forum, Nizan Packin and Sharon Rabinovitz highlight the social, political, and economic risks of rapidly growing commercial prediction market (PM) platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi, ...

This is a modified version of a blog post by a group headed by my close friend and colleague Dr. Patrick McKnight (who co-leads my own Well-Being Lab). The Measurement, Research Methodology, ...