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Visiting the remote jungle mountaintop where he wrote his insightful paper about the mechanisms of evolution. Introduction...
Are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? Introduction From steam power and electricity...
The Musée Dupuytren from the 19th century and what an ethical future might look like for the...
Research on exoplanets could help us estimate how many intelligent alien civilizations may be in our galaxy....
Newly discovered super-Earths add to the list of planets around other stars that offer the best chance...
Thousands of ancient genomes have been sequenced to date. Introduction For the first time, a Nobel Prize...
It’s tempting to focus on the minority of Americans who hold negative views about scientists, but they...
Journals, museum collections, and other historical sources can provide valuable data for modern studies. Introduction Henry David...
In slight decline in trust in scientists among the U.S. public, there is a clear factor underlying...
Charles Darwin set about inventing a system for making botanic motion visible to the naked eye. This...
This is only the latest phase of growing anti-factual tendencies and politicization. A special set of editorials...
Iron lungs are normally powered by an electric motor linked to a flexible pumping diaphragm. Introduction An iron...
The bubbles emitted by fermenting beer intrigued 18th-century preacher and chemist Joseph Priestley. Introduction When he was...
Laughing gas could be found in some of the most respectable and fashionable homes of 19th-century Britain....
It was thanks to her engineering and programming expertise that Apollo 11 was able to land on...
Exploring the deep roots of the concept of the tree as a visual metaphor and how it...
What is really special about science is not its logic or method, but its attitude toward evidence....
Hydrogen peroxide was first isolated in 1818 by Louis Jacques Thénard by reacting barium peroxide with nitric...
Exploring the nature and roots of science denial and how to recognize denial strategies. Biology teachers are...
In the beginning, the hand was just a hand — or so we can imagine. This article,...
Fears of backfire effects are overblown, and advice to listen and interact still stands. I was at...
The first recorded rudimentary steam-powered “engine” was the ancient aeolipile described by Hero of Alexandria. Introduction A steam...
NASA has only mapped 40% of the potentially dangerous asteroids that could crash into Earth. Introduction The...
In the early days of aviation, flying was extremely dangerous. Flight According to Principle One very cold...
Hubble’s findings are helping us understand how our universe has come to be the way it is...
Gene therapy is a rapidly advancing medical process used around the globe today to correct specific genetic...
By the 8th century BCE, Homer and Hesiod were writing about planetary influences. Introduction Ancient Greek astronomy was the...
Pre-Socratic Philosophers in ancient Greece advanced a non-theistic view of the universe. Introduction Aristarchus of Samos (l. c....
Rockets have evolved from simple gunpowder devices into giant vehicles capable of traveling into outer space. Ancient...