Share this on WhatsApp As COVID-19 claims more victims, scientific models make headlines. We need these models to make informed decisions. But how can we tell whether a model can be trusted? The philosophy of science, it seems, has become a matter of life or death. Whether we are talking about traffic noise from a […]
Share this on WhatsApp NASA’s New Horizons probe wowed the world in 2015 with unprecedented pictures of Pluto, and, more recently, with the first close-up images of an object in the Kuiper belt of asteroids. Now the mission has achieved yet another first: measuring the distances of two stars from the outer reaches of the Solar […]
Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in July 1857 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “We wish to impress upon the minds of those who wish to re-stock our streams with an abundance of good fish, that they must keep the streams clean and pure, if they expect to succeed. It is true that salmon and other […]
