Philosophy of science – Page 3
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Podcast
Book Club – Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
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Opinion
It's complicated
In a complex world, binary answers are often requested but rarely sufficient
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Podcast
Book Club – Clearing the air
Tim Smedley travels the world to work out why air pollution occurs, and what we can do to solve the problem
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Podcast
Book Club – The truth about fat
‘Angry chef’ Anthony Warner wants you to understand why people really get fat and how society tricks us into blaming each other
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Opinion
Have you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste
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Feature
The art of the periodic table
The venerable chart of elements has inspired and entertained in its first 150 years. Hayley Bennett looks at some of its weird, wacky – and wise – incarnations
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Podcast
Book Club – Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker uses comedy to explore the unique relationship between humans and maths and how numbers are behind errors large and small
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News
Small research teams more likely to deliver disruptive results
Both large and small teams are needed to keep the scientific ecosystem healthy, study finds
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Opinion
Whose periodic table is it anyway?
Dmitri Mendeleev’s table was not the first – but it’s the one that matters
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Review
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Artificial intelligence pioneer Judea Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie explore causality
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Feature
What is an element?
Our understanding of what an element is has evolved over the years, but it’s still a tricky concept to nail down. Philip Ball investigates
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Opinion
How science shapes our psychology
We learn to embrace the unexpected, follow evidence over opinion and accept that most experiments fail
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Podcast
Book Club – I’m a Joke and So Are You
Comedian Robin Ince explores what makes us human through conversations with fellow comics and scientists whose job it is to understand the human condition
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Podcast
Book Club – Losing the Nobel Prize
Physicist Brian Keating lost the Nobel Prize, then went on to re-evaluate its worth and examine how it could be improved
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Feature
Are the Nobel prizes good for science?
Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress
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Podcast
Book Club – Liquid
Mark Miodownik on the delightful, dangerous and downright strange liquids that flow through our lives
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Opinion
The physicist's guide to biology
How Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? overlooked the central science
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Podcast
Book Club – The Beautiful Cure
Immunologist Daniel Davis reveals the complexities of the human immune system