Nearly 400 years ago, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei championed the model proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus that Earth revolves around the sun. This was in complete contradiction to the ...

Unless you're a physicist, you've probably only encountered quantum mechanics on TV. And even when it was explained, you might've still been a little confused. The field of quantum mechanics was ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...

Ben Fulcher receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Complexity is all around us, from the daily fluctuations of financial markets to the intricate web of neurons in our ...

PART I. THE VARIETIES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE. "What is science?" ; Social problems of inductrialized science -- PART II. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. Science as craftsman's work ; ...