In the previous article, I presented the problem of gut instincts and personal preferences in decision-making and argued that we need a...

Using gut instincts Are you a glass half-empty or half-full kind of person? The question paints optimism and pessimism as a personality...

Predictability in nature allows complex solutions Surprisingly large parts of our world are simple in the sense that nature’s...

The scientific imagination is now profoundly digital in a way that owes much to Turing, Von Nuemann and the first days of scientific...

We were recently presenting at a Science Has no Borders: Unwrapped! (ShnB) interactive event at UCL that was really exciting to be a part of

What is novelty? Is there really such a thing as 'novelty' in reality, or does it all depend on your perspective and existing knowledge?...

By the end of this article, I promise you will understand what scientists usually mean when they talk about ‘complexity’ which is also...

It is a truism that most of us carry out our everyday commonsense tasks with very little conscious effort or analysis. Indeed to find...

Are we still two cultures? In 1959, the scientist and author CP Snow gave a lecture entitled ‘Two Cultures’. CP Snow’s speech was about...