Explore the limitations of Joel Mokyr's narrative on science, technology, and economic growth, emphasizing broader societal influences and historical complexities.

Loureiro's colleagues in Cambridge and beyond are reflecting on his legacy in physics, teaching, and research leadership.

This is an example of an idea known as harm-reduction. Rather than abandoning the technology because of the harm it causes, harm reduction accepts that innovation needs reviewing and improving, and ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...

The discovery began when detectorist Roy Søreng, who has searched for metal artifacts in the area for the past couple of years, picked up an unusual signal. Søreng had previously found “several stray ...

Former Minister for Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has joined the national conversation on the recent renaming of some ...

The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

There is profound transformation coming over the next decades. It will unlock the equivalent of a century of change every ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

Many of the early exhibitions were more typical science-museum exhibitions—hands-on experiments, things you do with your hands, learning through interaction. There was an exhibition about food. There ...