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 ...

Evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel became the first person to define the term ecology in his work published in 1866, entitled 'General Morphology of Organisms'. Science historians and biologists ...

IN this useful and provocative work, the author denounces the idealistic tendencies of modern science and pleads for a revival of philosophical materialism. It is true that the extensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Praveen Sugathan is an Assistant Professor at IIM Kozhikode. He is a leading management scholar from India researching cultural products, virtual reality, and consumer co-creation. His research ...

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 ...

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 ...

People appear to be disappointed with many things, including love, religion, spectator sports and cinema, but not science. If they are asked what pursuit humans have excelled in, they may all say, ...