The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
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Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
The Milky Way / NASA, Public Domain It is instructive to see how quickly nonsense claims evaporate...
Flickr, Creative Commons The recent intrusion of pseudoscience into mainstream scientific literature is a cause for concern....
The spiral of Theodorus up to the triangle with a hypotenuse of √17 / Wikimedia Commons A pseudoscience is...
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical...
Almost 160 years after Charles Darwin publicized his groundbreaking theory on the development of life, Americans are...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
The irrelevance of the heart to love has been amply demonstrated by cardiac transplant surgeons. In William...
The pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and woo spreading across the world wreaks havoc on those that buy into it. News of anti-vaxxer movements,...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
Making sure what’s intended is what’s heard can be more difficult than it seems. Melvin Gaal (mindsharing.eu)...
Is or is not? Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr attend the Solway conference in 1920 in Brussels,...
Fire in the sky has always exerted a powerful hold on our imagination, even as early scientists...
Science and religion are diametrically opposed at their deepest philosophical levels. It appears to be a widely...
Book on homeopathy and homeopathic “medicine”. / Creative Commons How science can help with management of misinformation. By Dr....
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or...
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century. By Ruth Garde / 04.12.2017...
Science is one thread of culture – and entertainment, including graphic books, can reflect that. ‘The Dialogues,’ by...
Scientific investigation was a central part of eighteenth century philosophical inquiry. By George Goodwin / 12.18.2017 Eccles...
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 1794. (British Library: Maps K.Top.83.61.i)Â That the American Declaration of Independence was based...
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. By Dr. Peter Harrison...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...
Flickr / Jaguar MENA, Creative Commons When you think about sports, do you consider the science behind...
Zhengwei Liu (left) and Arthur Jaffe are leading a new project to expand quon, their pictorial math...
By Dr. Michael Fowler Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics , Physics Education,Theoretical Condensed Matter...
By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015 Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics , Physics Education,Theoretical Condensed...
Can the arts be a bridge to other worlds? Daniel Parks, CC BY-NC Is a novella published 130 years...
By Dr. Bryan W. Roberts Associate Professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method London School of Economics &...