All Philosophy of science articles – Page 3
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PodcastSuperior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini – Book club
How different from each other are we all really? Angela Saini looks at the issues, claims and evidence behind race science
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PodcastThe Periodic Table by Primo Levi – Book club
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
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FeaturePrimo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man
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ReviewThe Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Drew Gwilliams reviews a book about how science should work, and what happens when it all goes wrong
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PodcastSuperheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman – Book club
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
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OpinionIt's complicated
In a complex world, binary answers are often requested but rarely sufficient
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PodcastClearing the air by Tim Smedley – Book club
Tim Smedley travels the world to work out why air pollution occurs, and what we can do to solve the problem
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PodcastThe Truth About Fat by Anthony Warner – Book club
‘Angry chef’ Anthony Warner wants you to understand why people really get fat and how society tricks us into blaming each other
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OpinionHave you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste
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FeatureThe art of the periodic table
The venerable chart of elements has inspired and entertained in its first 150 years. Hayley Bennett looks at some of its weird, wacky – and wise – incarnations
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PodcastHumble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker – Book club
Matt Parker uses comedy to explore the unique relationship between humans and maths and how numbers are behind errors large and small
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NewsSmall research teams more likely to deliver disruptive results
Both large and small teams are needed to keep the scientific ecosystem healthy, study finds
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OpinionWhose periodic table is it anyway?
Dmitri Mendeleev’s table was not the first – but it’s the one that matters
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ReviewThe Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Artificial intelligence pioneer Judea Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie explore causality
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FeatureWhat is an element?
Our understanding of what an element is has evolved over the years, but it’s still a tricky concept to nail down. Philip Ball investigates
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OpinionHow science shapes our psychology
We learn to embrace the unexpected, follow evidence over opinion and accept that most experiments fail
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PodcastI’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince – Book club
Comedian Robin Ince explores what makes us human through conversations with fellow comics and scientists whose job it is to understand the human condition
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PodcastLosing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating – Book club
Physicist Brian Keating lost the Nobel Prize, then went on to re-evaluate its worth and examine how it could be improved
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FeatureAre the Nobel prizes good for science?
Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress