Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. His most recent book is The Territories of Science and ...

Thursday 26 th July saw the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language science blog network. SciLogs.com, the brand-new home for Nature Network bloggers, forms part of the SciLogs international ...

Manifestos are meant to be short and punchy. The first edition of The Communist Manifesto ran to just 23 pages. Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses were thin enough to be nailed to the door of the ...

For Immanuel Kant, the central theme of the Enlightenment—that great 18th century movement that emphasized the power of reason—was Sapere aude. This is usually translated as "Dare to know" or, more ...

ALTERNATIVE medicine has never enjoyed such popularity and respect. Therapies once dubbed “pseudoscience” or “quackery” are now typically referred to as “alternative”, “complementary” or “holistic”.

Enlightenment-era pastors didn’t oppose modern science. They helped advance it. This essay was the first place winner of the 2017 CT Science Writing Contest. The scientific revolution hit Western ...

Like the spiritually oriented, scientists too can feel oneness with nature, writes MUKUL SHARMA Alot of us erroneously think it’s just the spiritually oriented who sometimes have a transformative ...