Today's research enterprise is often portrayed as impersonal and calculating, but a historical examination argues that scientists' civility to each other is what holds the venture together. Jerome ...

A common technique in science popularization is to take some modern scientific idea, and connect it to some much earlier notion. The classic example of this is the regular invocation of the ancient ...

Oreskes is the author of Why Trust Science? She is a Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University and also the co-author of Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for ...

For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper ...

More engagement with the tools of philosophy might have helped the author shore up the position of science. (Courtesy: Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library) Why did Newton’s laws take the form ...

Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

Norse mythology portrays the Sun (Sól) as a feminine figure chased daily across the sky, representing a constant battle against destructive forces and highlighting the precarious balance between life ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

Whose stories do you tell when you teach science and engineering? Newton? Galileo? Maybe Marie Curie? That question was posed to eight members of Princeton’s science and engineering faculty as part of ...

THE twentieth century has been an era of violence and change. In our acute awareness of this, we may fail to notice that in the midst of danger, insecurity and the destruction of human values and ...

Naidu emphasizes the importance of balancing modern science with traditional knowledge to enrich children's moral values and ...