Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. His most recent book is The Territories of Science and ...

Manifestos are meant to be short and punchy. The first edition of The Communist Manifesto ran to just 23 pages. Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses were thin enough to be nailed to the door of the ...

Thursday 26 th July saw the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language science blog network. SciLogs.com, the brand-new home for Nature Network bloggers, forms part of the SciLogs international ...

Domesticating science in the eighteenth century / John Heilbron -- Joseph Wright of Derby -- art, science and the validity of artistic language / Werner Busch -- The rhetoric of experiments and ...

ALTERNATIVE medicine has never enjoyed such popularity and respect. Therapies once dubbed “pseudoscience” or “quackery” are now typically referred to as “alternative”, “complementary” or “holistic”.

Like the spiritually oriented, scientists too can feel oneness with nature, writes MUKUL SHARMA Alot of us erroneously think it’s just the spiritually oriented who sometimes have a transformative ...