Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

The recent wave of pharmaceutical tragedies in Sri Lanka, as well as some others that have occurred regularly in the past, ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist ...

Every year I insist that each of my three children select a book for us to read together. Begrudging the assignment, my daughter Ilana spent the summer before college exploiting my love of the past by ...

For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper we probed nature, the story went, the less room there would be for anything ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

A lot of people these days are pleasure-seekers. They organize life around obtaining the most satisfying experiences possible of food, drink, travel, and leisure. We even hope to find our work ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

These days, tust seeing Tiger Woods on a golf course with a club in his hand is enough to stop the scroll of most golf fans. However, when Woods is dishing knowledge, like he was at the Hero World ...