Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

Between 1966 and 1977, the social scientist David Chambers asked 4,807 elementary-school children, mostly from Canada and the United States, to draw a scientist. Their illustrations regularly featured ...

Chris Curran receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the FASEB Board of Directors. As a neuroscience and bioscience researcher, ...