Scientific Revolution

If Trump has his way, the next four years will be far worse than even the Gilded Age

As a scientist, the most exciting moments in your professional life arise when you work hard to get a result, and — no matter how hard you try to understand it — it simply doesn't match up with your…

In a new book, the wisdom of plants is a balm for our changing planet

Ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed by fire are becoming realities. How will we respond?

Scientists identified an 11th-century astrolabe with Arabic inscriptions and Hebrew writings, highlighting a period when Muslims ruled in present-day Spain and scholarship and idea-sharing flourished.

Logismics and the wide-ranging impacts of computing

A public hospital in Portland is using a robot to create artificial genitalia.

In pursuit of Queen Bee, it was good to find "king" and hard to find "nankeen."

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI

James Hannam on the history of Chinese science.

Looming gaps in astronomers' views of the heavens could undercut the revolutionary potential of NASA's latest, greatest space telescope

It's boom times for doom times. But the apocalyptic mindset that has gripped so many of us not only understates how far we've come, but how much further we can still go.

The Universe violates the perfect cosmological principle. Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?.

Scientific papers are dense, jargon-filled, and painful to read. It wasn't always this way – and it doesn't have to be.

Jerome Groopman reviews "Parasites," a biological study by Scott L. Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz, with illustrations by Brenda Lee.

James Lovelock was a visionary whose greatest ideas were made possible by his unshakeable independence

A journey from ancient Greece to the modern newsroom

Astronomers once believed the sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century, scientists thought the shape of a person's skull could reveal their mental strengths or weaknesses. And in the 20th century, many scientists fiercely opposed the idea that continents drift. All views that have since been completely overturned.

In the 1960s, a British researcher launched one of the largest ever studies of people who believed they could see the future.

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