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 ...

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 ...

At 66, the moustachioed psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer exudes strapping good health – but that's not because he goes regularly to the doctor for checkups. "I follow the evidence," he says. "People who ...

In this episode, Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond sits down with Dr. Thalia Gigerenzer on the impact of technology and dating apps on modern interpretations of intimacy as well as exploring love as a ...

Gerd Gigerenzer is the author of Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions. He is currently the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and lectures around the ...

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 ...

If a woman aged 40 to 50 has breast cancer, nine times out of 10 it will show up on a mammogram. On the other hand, nine out of 10 suspicious mammograms turn out not to be cancer. Confused? So are ...