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PHILIP BALL | One sign of this shift is that biology is becoming more ready to accept and to speak of concepts long considered taboo...

JOSHUA RICHARDSON | De Regt’s central theory is psychologistic, meaning that it emphasizes the subjective, psychological role...

PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.

PHILIP BALL | I’d put money on quantum computing becoming commercially viable and useful way before fusion does...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

PHILIP BALL | There’s one thing that distinguishes living matter from nonliving matter, it is this notion of agency.

NICK SPENCER | The British have never felt a particularly pressing need formally to define science. . .Not so America.

AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .

LORRAINE DASTON | Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s?

IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism

PHILIP BALL | I’m particularly keen to set science within a wider historical, cultural, and philosophical context