A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

Science is the only safe source of knowledge that works in making public policy. This statement neatly sums up the perspective of Peter Calow, a professor of science, technology, and environmental ...