Philanthropy backs bold science as federal funds shrink. Schmidt Polymaths support Saad Bhamla’s work on biomechanics of everyday organisms from ripple bugs to flamingos.

Physicist Arvind Murugan earns Schmidt Science Polymath award for work at intersection of physics, biology, computation and materials science ...

I noticed recently that books with the phrase “The Last Man Who Knew Everything” all share in common that their subjects lived during the period close to the Scientific Revolution, roughly between ...

The figure of the polymath, the person whose knowledge touches many subjects, goes back at least as far as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus—and so does the skepticism inspired by these “monsters of ...

KeyToStudy announces the release of a new book that introduces science-based and practical techniques for building cross-disciplinary skills and fostering personal growth in a fast-changing era. This ...

Across history, few periods shine as brightly as the Renaissance. This era, characterized by a flourishing of art, science, and philosophy, gave birth to the concept of the polymath—individuals who ...

When Barb Oakley was growing up in the 1960s and early ’70s, nobody took her for a future engineer. “I just rode horses all the time,” she says when I ask what interested her as a girl. She was ...