Professor Aaron Kitch takes a fresh look at William Shakespeare in his latest book, tracing the influence of classical, medieval, and early modern science on the playwright. Shakespeare maintained a ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let the future disturb us. But then he never had a conversation with the futurologist Nick Bostrom about the state of the world in 2050. “There’s a ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

In his Introduction to Psychology, the father of psychology as a scientific discipline, Wihlem Wundt, wrote that “This science has to investigate the facts of consciousness, its combinations and ...

Sara Tolbert's research has been supported by funding from NZCER's TLRI scheme. She served as subject matter expert (science) and science advisory group member to the New Zealand Ministry of Education ...