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 ...

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

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What happens when science starts asking the same questions as philosophy, and maybe even theology? That’s exactly where “The Story of Everything” lands. The upcoming docufilm, led by physicist and ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

Yesterday, the philosopher Richard Yetter Chappell offered a thoughtful reply (see here) to my melancholic reflections on panpsychism, materialism, and the state of philosophy. Unlike me, Dan Dennett, ...

In late 2017, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) adopted a “Statement on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility”: Scientific freedom and scientific responsibility are ...

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...

The recently published Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC acknowledges that values play a role in the construction of climate change information. AR6 ...

A man in a lab coat bends under a dim light, his strained eyes riveted onto a microscope. He’s powered only by caffeine and anticipation. This solitary scientist will stay on task until he unveils the ...