Some general principles for approaching the topic of knowledge transfer and science transfer. Abstract We are all...
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The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
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...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
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...
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) 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 &...
By Dr. Bryan W. Roberts Associate Professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method London School of Economics &...
David Hume / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Bryan W. Roberts Associate Professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method...
Charles Darwin / Public Domain Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.12.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Themes and...
Visualization of the proposed SPARC tokamak experiment. Using high-field magnets built with newly available high-temperature superconductors, this...