This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American "He who loves practice without theory is like ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...

Do you fear the theory of “global warming”? If so, how deep is your fear? As in would you be willing to bet a substantial amount of your net worth that the theory is not just real, but ear ...

Science has given us vaccines, space telescopes, and smartphones. It has also given us doctors blowing smoke where smoke should never go. Even the heavyweights of science have had their off days. And ...

Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle, his luggage is still giving up secrets. We often think of the story of how we came up with the theory of evolution by natural ...