An animated GIF of a highly magnified view of a single stoma on the leaf of a boat lily (Tradescantia spathacea). The stoma is opening and closing in response to changing levels of carbon dioxide ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...

The Birth of Modern Science It was in the 17th century that modern science was really born, and the world began to be examined more closely, using instruments such as the telescope, microscope ...

Despite being cooked up by Compuserve back in the late 1980s, GIFs have seen a resurgence on the modern internet, mostly because they’re fun. However, all our small embedded systems are getting ...

What are the greatest '80s sci-fi movies of all time? As the sun set over the New Hollywood Wave of the 1970s, the era's ...

Again I will give you another example taken from the state of modern physical science. Since the time of Newton and Huyghens in the seventeenth century there have been two theories as to the ...

Although science has a long history with roots in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else. The ...

Trump and his MAGA movement have been occupied since 2015 not only with spreading incessant lies but also with disbursing a corrosive loss of faith, leaving advances in modern science as one of ...

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So what is the oldest-known fossil belonging to a modern human? Chris Stringer, research leader in human evolution at the Natural History Museum in the U.K., told Live Science in an email that "in my ...

Saunders, Lesley 2014. Do Poetry and Science Have Interesting and Important Things in Common? Some Thoughts on ‘Parsimony’ and ‘Provisionality’. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 39, Issue. 1, p ...

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern: Science ...