Health behaviors are critical determinants of the well-being of individuals and populations, and understanding the determinants of these behaviors has been a major focus of research. One important ...

Uncertainty and emotion are an inevitable part of everyday life and play a vital role in mental health. Yet, our understanding of how uncertainty and emotion interact is limited. Here, an online ...

On July 19, 2024, a single-digit error in the software update of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike grounded international airlines, halted emergency medical ...

According to the APA's Stress in America Survey, 81% of Americans reported global uncertainty as one of their main sources of stress, and nearly 65% said that the dynamic nature of the pandemic makes ...

As the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated, humans have a complicated relationship with uncertainty. A little uncertainty can be exciting, such as not knowing the ending of a thriller movie. A lot of ...

As much as people struggle with not knowing, we live in an uncertain world – and there are advantages to embracing that Think of the last time you felt uncertain about something important. Maybe you ...

Nathan Harshman: Quantum mechanics tells us that within materialism – the idea that nothing exists except matter and its movements – there are uncertainties that do not derive from our ignorance but ...

Christie Aschwanden: Rosemerry, do you remember that time we were hiking along the lake on Enchanted Mesa [in Colorado], and I told you I was thinking about doing a project about science and ...

It has been said that the purpose of organisation is to eliminate uncertainty. Is this stifling the ability to innovate? I recently spoke with the innovation leaders at a major biopharmaceutical firm.

Debate abounds about how to describe weaknesses in statistics. Andrew Gelman has no confidence in the term “confidence interval,” but Sander Greenland doesn’t find “uncertainty interval” any better ...