Surgeon intuition is often right, but when compared to a standard risk calculator used to estimate complications post-surgery, technology still wins, a new study found. Led by researchers from ...

A "smart mother" often makes a "better diagnosis than a poor doctor": medical students are often given this century-old advice from pioneering German surgeon Dr August Bier – and a new study has ...

Chemists are moving beyond hand-waving explanations by quantifying factors like the anomeric effect and steric repulsion ...

Intuition has often been dismissed as vague or unscientific. But that’s changing. An emerging body of evidence shows that a well-trained intuition, what we sometimes call “gut feelings,” is key to our ...

Two doctors describe the role of intuition in medical decision-making as a case study into the mysterious power of this unquantifiable form of knowledge. Doctors are expected to make high-stakes ...

We've been running on a very narrow spectrum of human intelligence, and it's landed us in social and environmental crises. Our very survival now depends on reclaiming other, wiser parts of our minds.

Many scientific findings conflict with our gut sense of what is working, making teaching and learning harder. Our perceptions about what’s working in the learning process often conflict with ...

Some of history’s most notable and successful leaders were known for their intuition: Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey and Albert Einstein, to name a few. But going with your gut doesn’t work for all ...

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the world’s best chess player, Gary Kasparov. Immediately, some people noted that we were still superior at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Go, they ...