James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Watson was also an outspoken and controversial figure who transformed the way science was communicated. He was the first high-profile Nobel laureate to give the general public a shockingly personal ...

What if the bridge between our worlds isn’t language at all, but physics? In a recent episode of SETI Live, theoretical physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson, co-author of Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.

aDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada bDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada ...

Delhi’s plan for cloud seeding is being sold as a bold solution to air pollution. In reality, it is a textbook case of science misapplied and ethics ignored. Across North India, air quality is poor ...

This perspective paper examines the profound cognitive and methodological parallels between scientific and artistic research, challenging the traditional distinction between the two domains. While ...

Abstract: Smart manufacturing (SM) systems utilize run-time data to improve productivity via intelligent decision-making and analysis mechanisms on both machine and system levels. The increased ...

Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment called siphonein acts like a natural sun shield, protecting the algae’s ...