Historians, religious scholars and humanities academics recently gathered at Bowdoin for an interdisciplinary symposium to discuss new research on how science operated before the scientific revolution ...

Two stories in science are worth cheering right now: the amazing amount of knowledge humanity is gathering about COVID-19 and the quietly revolutionary ways we’re accelerating the pace of discovery.

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

WHAT is called the modern ‘revolution’ in science consists in the fact that the Newtonian outlook, which dominated the scientific world for nearly two hundred years, has been found insufficient. It is ...

How the new richness and accessibility of data, and advances in data science, are enhancing both quantitative and traditional fundamental investment research—and sparking a revolution in active ...

One of the world’s leading authorities on Grid technologies from the USA will give the keynote address at a one-day seminar on Tuesday 20 February in Oxfordshire. Carl Kesselman from the University of ...

Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its annual migration. Compared to these long-distance travelers of land, sea ...

Fewer than one in 20 high school students take computer science (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images) Half of high schools do not offer a single course in computer ...

It is a rare event for humanity to experience a change in worldview. You could say that the last time such an event truly took place was at the end of the Middle Ages — with the development of the ...

Thanks to great strides in fundamental research, biology is becoming ever more programmable. Two recent scientific advances show just how powerful the possibilities could be. The genetic modification ...