Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...

The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S.

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and ...

Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American An old Chinese proverb says: “If you’re ...

Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a “longhair” who had coined the word “cybernetics”* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now ...

Cognitive science is, by its very nature, a field that requires the simultaneous presence of psychology, neuroscience, ...

In this special guest feature, Neera Talbert of Revolution Analytics discusses the role of open source software in making data science the rising field it is today. Neera Talbert is Vice President, ...