I once suggested that monotheism and codified law, two features of Western culture absent in China, led to a notion of universal law, which influenced the development of abstract science in ancient ...

Matthews is a fellow of science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Russell is the Huffington fellow in child health and L.E. Simmons senior fellow in health ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lies a profound space between what science can explain and what's left to our imaginations. As a result, humans have spent centuries spinning tales of enormous ...

ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract ...

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Abstract: Science fiction has long promised us interfaces and robots that interact with us as smoothly as humans do - Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons, C-3PO from Star Wars, and Samantha from Her.