Creativity has always been central to science, but Professors Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher believe it’s not being systematically taught or valued in today’s research ecosystems. In pursuit of a ...

Furthermore, this finding is further patterned by team size and time. Women are more represented in larger teams within reproducibility, and women’s participation is increasing in open science over ...

The first two chapters survey the growth of science since the 17th century and attempt to sketch the leading ideas of physics and biology from that time to our own. Regrettably, the writing is ...

Most people think of seismology as the science of earthquakes that split roads or rattle buildings. In reality, it covers every vibration that ripples through the ground, whether from tectonic shifts, ...

Protesters gather for an antivaccine rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 2022. As the pandemic enters its third year, the United States is facing a pathogen as dangerous as any ...

The leading theory in the social sciences is cultural determinism. Yet, it lacks plausibility as a scientific theory. It is often untestable. When tested, it frequently fails. Such failures are widely ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

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Iain Banks is probably best known in the United States for his 1984 debut novel, “The Wasp Factory,” but fans of science fiction love him for his Culture series (published under the name Iain M. Banks ...