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This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something

If knowledge isn’t justified true belief, what is it?

November 17, 2016

The World’s Most Inspirational Iceberg Isn’t What It Seems

The professional photographer who created a popular poster image takes it apart.

November 17, 2016

Ingenious: Richard Dawkins

The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.

October 21, 2016

What Counts as Science?

The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.

October 13, 2016

The Parallel Universes of a Woman in Science

In physics and in life, choice and possibility play against each other.

September 30, 2016

Spark of Science: Joyce Poole

The elephant researcher tells her story.

September 26, 2016

A Nonlinear History of Time Travel

Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.

September 22, 2016