Are there natural limits to biological change? Is the evidence for design in nature well founded?
10 months ago

Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated,...
101 months ago

Why did scientists endure, while sciencers perished? Philip Ball examines the quirks of science's lexical legacy.
115 months ago

Although histories of science routinely mention the birth of our word 'scientist' from the pen of William Whewell a mere 167 years ago,...
281 months ago

Galileo Galilei's famous studies of motion and the cosmos, plus his readiness to contradict religious dogma, make him the archetypal scientist.
43 months ago

Laura Snyder, a historian of science, examines the lives and achievements of 19th-century British intellectuals Charles Babbage,...
162 months ago

Letters: Dr William Whewell | John Prescott | International Apostrophe Day | University vice-chancellors | Musk and Trump.
1 month ago

I read a great article called Disciplinarity: An Introduction by David R. Shumway and Ellen Messer-Davidow. It had a sweeping overview of the history of...
134 months ago

In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory.
73 months ago

Pepe Cervera escribía hace unos días acerca de Mary Somerville, una mujer extraordinaria que rompió con las convenciones de su época y...
82 months ago