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

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...

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...

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

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

An interview with Jose Sanchez

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

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...

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....

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

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

Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as the Robber Barons of the 21st century...

Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,

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....

An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050...

Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our planet...

Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...

Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...

Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...

Bench traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today.,,

Weltman surveys a number of ways this conception of mathematics has informed scientific undertakings and public policies, not to mention our everyday behaviors, and makes a powerful case for reevaluating its assumptions...