I just read and enjoyed Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, a new book by Michael Nielsen, recently reviewed by Bora Zivkovic. The book tells how science is undergoing a ...

The united states by any conceivable measure has the finest scientists in the world. But the rest of the population, by any rational standard, is abysmally ignorant of science, mathematics and all ...

Transparency in science is a delicate issue that directly influences public trust. A recent study explores this paradox where too much transparency can sometimes backfire. Byron Hyde, a researcher at ...

While it sounds a little silly, Einstein used to sit around and think about how an object could be at rest and yet also moving — at the same time. Deciding that the apparent contradiction was possible ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Christopher Nolan got his idea for the thriller film Inception from one of his own lucid dreams. It’s a brilliant mind-bending story. Richard Linklater got a similar inspiration from his lucid dreams ...

Time travel might seem like nothing more than science fiction, but scientists actually say that isn't the case at all. Time travel could actually be possible with wormholes and other mechanics.

Physicists have observed the quantum mechanical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in a system of several hundred interacting atoms for the first time. The phenomenon dates back to a famous thought ...