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The Dublin based Livewire Publications has produced a new collection of essays titled Science & Capital - Radical Essays on Science & Technology, with the intention to; “bring together some of the ...

The administration and academic leadership of colleges and universities need to communicate far more effectively about science and its importance to the world outside academe, argues Jiri Hulcr. Many ...

Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge is the second non-fiction compilation from editor Max Brockman, following up the earlier essay collection, What's Next? The topics are as varied as the ...

A visit to one of the country's most distinctive medical museums reminds Elizabeth H. Simmons how the humanities can bolster science and why science is best learned in social context. “Would you like ...

When someone "hurts our feelings," do we feel physical pain? Is altruism the challenge to evolutionary tenets that many have claimed? How will plants adapt to global warming? Young scientists tackle ...

The theme for the 2nd annual Alliance for Science National High School Essay Contest has been announced; the 2008 theme is going to be the extremely interesting and relevant subject of “Climate, ...

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An “escape from living a normal, mundane life,” is how one reader called her lab research as a grad student. Another mentioned the “moments of wonder that punctuated the darkness.” Yet another ...

Dr. Bik is a microbiologist who has worked at Stanford University and for the Dutch National Institute for Health. One evening in January 2014, I sat at my computer at home, sifting through scientific ...

I recently served as a judge for the Imagine Science Film Festival, and Nature (one of the festival’s sponsors) asked if I’d write about the experience. I’m pretty suspicious of the whole idea of ...