On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams
New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?
James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny
Was Newton really “the last of the magicians”?
Physics, prophecy, and the myth of Newton's clockwork universe
Essay | Winter 2015
Science, technology, and the First World War
On the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason
What the Romantics learned from scientists, and vice versa