All Philosophy of science articles – Page 3
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NewsSmall 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
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Podcast
Book Club – Unthinkable
Helen Thomson looks at some of the rarest neurological conditions known to science
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Podcast
Chemistry World Book Club at the Hay Festival
Emma Stoye seeks the science at the world famous Festival of Literature & Arts
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Feature
Ethics in chemistry
Nina Notman asks whether chemists should be giving more consideration to the ethics of their research
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Review
Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism and progress
Steven Pinker sets out to prove we’re living longer, healthier, safer, richer, freer, happier and more meaningful lives than ever before
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Podcast
Book Club – Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker explains how humanity is doing better than we might at first think
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Opinion
For the sake of argument
It’s important to recognise which disputes can actually be resolved by science
