The proponents of the idea of a global climate crisis are fond of saying that when it comes to climate change, “the science is settled.” But in fact that is just a way of telling their opposition to ...

The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...

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Briefly, the coherence theory says that a statement is true if it is consistent with a larger system of beliefs. The ...

In casual conversation, people often use the word theory to mean "hunch" or "guess": If you forget to put the bread in the breadbox and discover chunks have been taken out of it the next morning, you ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and his discovery of ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...