Although today Atkins’s prints are sold and viewed as art, they were originally made as botanical illustrations....
Science
The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. By Dr. Albert...
Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to allegedly “improve” the...
Studies on ancient Chinese science suggest that up till the 14th century CE it was much more...
Examining early medieval approaches to various types of knowledge we might consider today to be ‘scientific’ and...
Roman and early medieval scientific texts were read and studied, contributing to the understanding of nature in...
How early modern science’s fascination with unfamiliar objects helped a new chapter of Scottish folklore. This article,...
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...
Exploring discoveries and inventions made by the Chinese between about 200 and 1400 C.E. Introduction Over the...
He argued with Newton, and both were partially right. Introduction Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with...
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...
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...