From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

The 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 l ...

Some modern historians claim they are “doing science.” However, Ludwig von Mises in Theory and History decried what he saw as ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best ...

From animal rivals to Jane Goodall's last thoughts, enjoy 2025's best science documentaries, says our TV columnist Bethan ...

But transgender rights has become an exception, a place where the culture war burns hot as public opinion shifts rightward — ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

Autoimmune diseases misidentify parts of the body as a threat. Dehumanization mirrors this error. Here's why we dismiss ...

Gen Alpha, born after 2010, is reshaping classrooms with their digital fluency and innate curiosity. Progressive Indian ...