How early modern science’s fascination with unfamiliar objects helped a new chapter of Scottish folklore. This article,...
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How artists and scientists around the world once made sense of the night sky. While we all...
Thanks to the trend of publishing daily horoscopes in newspapers and magazines, every person in America knows...
The earliest humans had and passed on knowledge about plants and animals to increase their chances of...
Exploring scientific work and thought in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, and China. Introduction The...
Exploring forms of image making which pushed the boundaries of 17th-century book printing. This article, “More Lively...
CRO (Contract Research Organization) companies can vary in size from global companies to small specialized groups. CRO...
Aggressive nihilism will let some combination of authoritarian government and an even more harshly inegalitarian economy prevail....
Exploring a time when science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the world. Introduction...
They improved ways of doing things that influenced the Scientific Revolution in Europe centuries later. Introduction In...
Chinese advances in exploration and travel, industry, military technology, everyday objects, and disease prevention. Introduction Over the...
The absence of any contemporary portrait of Hooke stands out because he was a founding member, fellow,...
Geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean. Introduction...
Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure...
The increased study of plants for artistic purposes during the Renaissance led to the development of the...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
In some cases, the explicit goal of these technologies is to deny opportunities to those deemed unfit....
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
We need to take people on their own terms, not on ours. And Roebling’s terms were the...
Roger Bacon believed people should test their beliefs rather than accepting what they’re told. Introduction It seems...
For fundamentalists, whose brains are not accustomed to thinking critically, rational arguments don’t make a dent with...
Christian fundamentalists have made a spectacular show of their rejection of modern science in response to the...
Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The internet has allowed pseudoscience to flourish. Artificial intelligence could help steer people away from the bad...
The Catholic Church didn’t finally officially recognize their own error until John Paul II in 1992. Introduction...
It all started with the realization that we can describe the dynamics of the universe within a...
We have more neurons in our cortices than any other species, courtesy of an early technology –...
It was a matter of the right eclipse, the right place, and the right time. By Charles...
Humboldt almost invented the electric battery– in fact, he came very close. Alexander von Humboldt was born...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...