Is the quest for the perfect top notes responsible for some of the world’s most influential scientific discoveries? A new article in Isis, a journal of the History of Science Society, argues that ...

In the 11th century in Cairo, the foundations for modern science were laid through the detention of an innocent man. The mathematician Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham had been tasked with regulating ...

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 ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...