Unknown cabinetmaker, Italian, “Books and scientific instruments” (c. 1476), wood intarsia. Palazzo Ducale, Urbino (Image via Web Gallery of Art) On Wednesday, Intel announced that it was “dropping ...

The specialized meaning of science words can lead to public confusion when the media apply scientific terms out of context. A poignant example recently occurred when the media reported the Antarctic ...

Nobody knows how men began to talk, but plenty of scholars have advanced strangely nicknamed theories about it. Last week an eminent psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike of Columbia University, entered ...