Last week over in Twitter-land, Philip Ball asked an interesting question: I’ve written a fair bit about historical science, and read more than I’ve written, so this question stuck with me, and seems ...

In the digital age, equipping children with a strong foundation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is more crucial than ever. While classrooms provide structured learning, the most ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but for the science writer Philip Ball it emerges from within. In “Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science” Mr. Ball argues that ...

Reddit’s r/Place project is back this April Fools Day, five years after the original experiment in 2017, in which “more than one million redditors placed approximately 16 million tiles on a blank ...

BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, has asked the presidents of 86 scientific societies to invite their members to submit nominations for an unusual ...