In popular history, the scientific revolution is often viewed to be due to the work of singular pioneers: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. But as scholars in the history of science have argued, ...

When Columbus discovered America, European culture hadn’t yet grasped the concept of discovery. Various languages had verbs that could be translated as discover, but only in the sense of discovering ...

Think again Tycho Brahe, whose statue overlooks the Østervold Observatory in Denmark, was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution in 16th-century Europe. A new book explores the cultural and ...

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The discovery of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century spawned a revolution that tore through scientific disciplines with abandon. It helped to explain, among many other things, the structure of ...

Original broadcast date: January 7, 2022. New innovations in gene and stem cell technology have the power to shape ecosystems and even change humanity. This hour, TED speakers share the breakthroughs ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Since 1960 a debate has taken place between demographers and natural scientists over projections of world population into the future and the ...

Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its annual migration. Compared to these long-distance travelers of land, sea ...