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 ...

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 ...

Your gut feeling isn't just a metaphor. Science reveals how intuition works-and when you should listen to it.

Intuition is a potent form of inner wisdom. It’s an unflinching truth-teller committed to our well-being. You can experience intuition as a gut feeling, hunch, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mom might chalk up her gut feelings to mother's intuition. But the science behind it isn't well understood. (Getty Images) ...

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 ...

I was recently asked what advice I might give to aspiring business leaders that could help them make purposeful decisions. After giving this question serious consideration, I recalled a Harvard ...