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History Of Science
It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.
Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here's why we don't buy it.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
Though a single measurement is not enough to definitively decide the debate, this is a major win for dark matter proponents.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
Even the dictionary doesn't get the definition right.
What we call "basic research" is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
John Templeton Foundation
The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein's mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here's why it had to be there.
You've heard of Stephen Hawking. Ever heard of Renata Kallosh? Didn't think so.
John Templeton Foundation
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.
How efficiently could quantum engines operate?
More than 200 years ago, scientists tried to figure out how bats navigate in the dark (or without eyes). This set in motion a series of events that led to the development of ultrasound as a form of psychotherapy.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we'll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here's what everyone should know.
The quadratic formula isn't just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
Einstein's theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.
The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we've been doing.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
No matter how hard we try, we will never reach a final theory that unifies scientific knowledge. The very nature of science doesn't allow it.
Both made monumental contributions that were far ahead of their time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea that the Universe was dominated not by normal matter but rather by dark […]
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
Something isn’t adding up, but it isn’t a calibration error. It’s been nearly 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. Ever since, the scientists who study the […]
It’s how successful our current theories are. Some 500 years ago, there was one scientific phenomenon that was, without controversy, extremely well-understood: the motion of the celestial objects in the sky. […]