Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond?

What is the human and environmental cost of music?

Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Can robots be our friends?

Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...

Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 70s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture...

Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us.,,

Anderson provides a history of pigs in America from the first arrival on the continent in the Columbian Exchange to the modern agribusiness of pork production...

Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs...

The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?

Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...

This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society...

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

How did the modern, American body come into being?

Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...

Sexbots are coming...

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?