Like the revelation that the earth revolves around the sun, the discovery of a digital, sound money system in Bitcoin is a scientific revolution. It is a rare event for humanity to experience a change ...

A stone's throw from Dublin's Merrion Square, where medical luminaries such as William Stokes and William Wilde plied their ...

One of the world’s leading authorities on Grid technologies from the USA will give the keynote address at a one-day seminar on Tuesday 20 February in Oxfordshire. Carl Kesselman from the University of ...

Grounded in research and cultivating inquiry, American medicine, at its best, is the envy of the world. Patients from around the globe—with the means to afford it—travel to centers of excellence like ...

WHAT is called the modern ‘revolution’ in science consists in the fact that the Newtonian outlook, which dominated the scientific world for nearly two hundred years, has been found insufficient. It is ...

Thanks to great strides in fundamental research, biology is becoming ever more programmable. Two recent scientific advances show just how powerful the possibilities could be. The genetic modification ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

Fewer than one in 20 high school students take computer science (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images) Half of high schools do not offer a single course in computer ...

In recent years, social psychology and science overall have been undergoing a "credibility revolution" with a grassroots "open science" movement aiming to promote significant changes to the scientific ...

In his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn explains how scientific revolutions occur. When an anomaly challenges an established scientific theory, the scientific community ...

It is a rare event for humanity to experience a change in worldview. You could say that the last time such an event truly took place was at the end of the Middle Ages — with the development of the ...

Grounded in research and cultivating inquiry, American medicine, at its best, is the envy of the world. Patients from around the globe—with the means to afford it—travel to centers of excellence like ...