In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Kuhn's taxonomy of consciousness connects various theories to deep questions about human existence and AI, based on his extensive dialogue with over 200 experts. “Out of meat, how do you get thought?

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...

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An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

Summer is a wonderful time for families to go the beach and for small children to get to know the water and the sand.

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of geoscientists offer innovative, updated perspectives of an iconic sedimentary ...

Given the ubiquitous use in science and its critical importance to the future of science and engineering, computational modeling plays a central role in progress and scientific developments in the ...

Regarding the first, we all have the potential for virtue imbedded within our very nature. Every human being is designed with a basic capacity for virtue and the happiness brought about by virtue.

“Twenty seconds, professor, and no long words.” This is what a BBC producer once told Ian Fells, a chemical engineer at Newcastle University, UK, shortly before Fells was due to appear on a ...

Their concerns are not unusual, and could arguably just be part and parcel of Singapore’s vision of being a “City in Nature”, what with forests and parks so close to urban areas. It is not ...

Science sleuths work tirelessly to uncover this ... as it means we can scale up our effort of screening submissions”, she adds. Springer Nature, which publishes Nature, is developing its own ...