Dark Laboratory’s attempt to view the climate crisis through the lens of early colonialism makes some valid points but fails to develop a coherent analysis, argues John Clarke Throughout the chapters ...

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still ...

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In their pursuit of knowledge about the natural world, 16th-century scientists saw few boundaries between experiment and ...

Vallance has set out with admirable clarity how science is reliant ... the virus had come out of a laboratory. This snippet was disclosed in Spike, the 2021 book by Sir Jeremy Farrar, a fellow ...

When it comes to innovation, location matters. Because of Trump, China's dominance of the world economy could be nigh.

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Ms. Moller begins her tour in Nuremberg, Germany, a hotbed of invention, where Johannes Regiomontanus turned his house into an observatory and laboratory ... maps and books untidily piled up ...

All this is a fundamental assault on the values and functioning of our university system. Columbia and Johns Hopkins, founded ...