LONDON - AUGUST 31: Philosopher Sir Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) poses at his home in Croydon, in London, England on August 31, 1992. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images) This is, of course, a ...

Proposals to fight malaria by 'driving' genes that slow its spread through mosquitoes is a high-risk, high-reward technology that presents a challenge to science journalists, according to a new report ...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of a highly influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by the physicist and historian Thomas Kuhn 1. This is the book that ...

Before the revolution triggered by Nicolaus Copernicus, a 16th-century cleric, the Earth was the unmoving centre of the cosmos. Afterwards, it was one of a family of planets swinging through space.