“If we take a step back and look at the broad historical sweep and the cross cultural sweep, what we in the modern West find ourselves...

PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .

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 | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .

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.

A profound but quiet transformation in biology is changing the way we think about life.

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

VITTORIO HÖSLE | Where does the enthusiasm of the 18th century for the humanities come from?

VITTORIO HÖSLE | We must try to develop again a worldview in which scientific and ethical thinking. . .

VITTORIO HÖSLE | Long into the nineteenth century science and natural philosophy were connected, and that one of the great events in . . .

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

PETER HARRISON | Studying how science actually works as a human enterprise—with fallible human actors—gives you a very different view. . .

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .

Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .

PETER HARRISON | Stephen Gaukroger was an eminent British-Australian scholar who specialized in the history of science and the history of...

PHILIP BALL | The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but

LISA H. SIDERIS | Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one.

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

PETER HARRISON | The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the progress

Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a century, both public...

TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative

TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties

LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print

TOM McLEISH | There are distinct signs that the poet John Keats’ Grecian Urn has found its voice again. This is a surprise.

LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe

PHILIP BALL | Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to send a small spacecraft to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche 2

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

LINDY ELKINS-TANTON | Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution.

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author

AVI LOEB | In the Fall of 2017, atop the dormant volcano Heleakalā, in Maui, Hawaii, Pan-STARRS, a state-of-the-art network of telescopes

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is the former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author of over 25 books on science

PHILIP BALL | But for me, it just feels like it’s too good an opportunity to waste not to broaden my horizons with every book I write.

PHILIP BALL | Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world, using it to formulate theories and hypotheses

PHILIP BALL | The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble.

PETER HARRISON | Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and it affects all of us.