How the new richness and accessibility of data, and advances in data science, are enhancing both quantitative and traditional fundamental investment research—and sparking a revolution in active ...

Historians, religious scholars and humanities academics recently gathered at Bowdoin for an interdisciplinary symposium to discuss new research on how science operated before the scientific revolution ...

Steve Jobs saw it coming. “I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology,” he said. “A new era is beginning.” Data scientists are catalyzing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...