Machine learning systems have for years now been besting their human counterparts at everything from Go and Jeopardy! to drug discovery and cancer detection. With all the advances that the field has ...

Readers who found Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink stronger on anecdote than analysis will welcome this incisive study by a psychologist whose research provided one of the bases for Mr. Gladwell’s best seller ...

GERD GIGERENZER, director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, is on a mission to make everyone more “risk savvy”. Mr ...

Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, on how to know when simple rules and snap decisions will outperform analytical models. Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max ...

This release is available in German. This year's Communicator Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences ...

One of the most accessible books in this year's Aventis shortlist is Reckoning With Risk by Gerd Gigerenzer. BBC News Online's Helen Briggs weighs up the entry. "In this world there is nothing certain ...