At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

K.C. Cole teaches at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and is the author, most recently, of "Mind Over Matter: Conversations With the Cosmos." ONE of the few books I ever stayed up all night to ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

If you would like to the basics of data science to give you a much better understanding of the subject and a foundation to build on. You might be interested to know that the team over at DATAtab have ...

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Who says science can't be, like, cool? Natalie Angier certainly thinks so, and in her new book The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for ...

Almost everyone appreciates the importance of basic literacies—like being able to read and write and do basic arithmetic. But there are other fundamental parts of our modern lives that require a few ...

From an anthropological point of view, the practice of science comes out of two possible impulses. One is a desire to understand the world and its manifestations, the other to make the world more ...

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