An interview with Beth Shapiro

An interview with Charles R. Acland

An interview with Elizabeth Catte

An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas

An interview with Paul Davies

An interview with Eben Kirksey

An interview with Jeff Levin

An interview with Mark Maslin

An interview with Richard Ovenden

Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...

The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks...

An interview with Nick Haddad

Kelty offers a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today...

An interview with Jose Sanchez

The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...

Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s...

After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...

Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...

Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....

Hype can be combated and discounted, though, if you're able to see exactly where, how and why it is being deployed...

Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles...

O. Carter Snead defines for us what the term “public bioethics” encompasses and provides a much-needed genealogy of the field....

Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing....

Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy...

Stein shows how high-school algebra and basic probability theory, with the invaluable assistance of computer simulations, can be used to investigate both the intuitive and the counterintuitive....