Though he did not anticipate the power of symbolic mathematics, by invoking the example of codebreaking, the 17th-century philosopher prepared for the later union of mathematics with experimental science.
Peter Pesic | Feb 27, 2023
The history of the total artificial heart is punctuated with both brilliant innovation and continual clinical failure.
Sian E. Harding | Feb 14, 2023
Kathryn Hall, an expert on placebos, considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to them.
Kathryn T. Hall | Jan 12, 2023
Birds have an exceptional resistance to aging. Can scientists discover their secrets?
Steven N. Austad | Jan 5, 2023
Drawings and short essays offer an illuminating peek into the history of scientific thought.
Don S. Lemons | Jan 3, 2023
Educators should ask not who is curious, but how is each person curious?
Perry Zurn & Dani S. Bassett | Dec 27, 2022
If protolanguages began as largely gestural systems, why and how did vocalization become so important?
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny | Dec 24, 2022
For as long as humans have existed, they have sought new tools, techniques, and technologies in their personal quests for actionable advice.
Michael Schrage | Dec 5, 2022
Psycholinguist Giosuè Baggio sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet.
Giosuè Baggio | Nov 25, 2022
From the nucleus of each cell to the architecture of our organs, the human body bears the traces and wounds of a long and contrasting evolutionary history.
Telmo Pievani | Nov 17, 2022