The Dublin based Livewire Publications has produced a new collection of essays titled Science & Capital - Radical Essays on Science & Technology, with the intention to; “bring together some of the ...

(Phys.org) -- Because astronomy and astrophysics are still so much a mixture of theory, conjecture and generally difficult to measure phenomenon, at least as compared with many of the other sciences, ...

When someone "hurts our feelings," do we feel physical pain? Is altruism the challenge to evolutionary tenets that many have claimed? How will plants adapt to global warming? Young scientists tackle ...

A visit to one of the country's most distinctive medical museums reminds Elizabeth H. Simmons how the humanities can bolster science and why science is best learned in social context. “Would you like ...

An “escape from living a normal, mundane life,” is how one reader called her lab research as a grad student. Another mentioned the “moments of wonder that punctuated the darkness.” Yet another ...

Smithtown students recently swept the top three spots in an essay contest coordinated by Brookhaven National Laboratory. The trio of teens from Smithtown High School East — Yongpeng Tang, Brian ...

First Opinion, STAT’s platform for opinion and perspective essays, welcomes submissions about the biopharma industry, medical science and health care, and other topics related to the life sciences ...

I'm a teacher from a family of teachers. My father, who was a school principal, used to talk about hiring good teachers. He believed that some teachers have an instinct for it while others, less so. I ...

Dr. Bik is a microbiologist who has worked at Stanford University and for the Dutch National Institute for Health. One evening in January 2014, I sat at my computer at home, sifting through scientific ...