If intelligent extraterrestrial beings ever visit us, what common ground shall we find for conversation? Science, of course. Overwhelmingly science, very probably nothing but science and mathematics.

How many times do we hear that some scientific view is “only theory” or that it is “not proven”? The hidden implication is that if we have not “proven” the case, then we do not know anything for ...

Science is concerned with finding the truth about the world. The best outcome in a scientific study is that it produces verifiable, replicable facts about the biological, chemical, physical, or ...

Eleanor P. Wiesler ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is an Applied Mathematics concentrator in Eliot House. “Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical ...

I have observed some worrisome trends that have motivated me to speak out on the virtues of science based thinking, and to write a textbook on The Science of Diversity. Oxford Dictionaries selected ...

I’ve just released the 13th iteration of the annual RHSU Edu-Scholar rankings, an exercise designed to recognize those who are bringing research, scholarship, and scientific expertise into the public ...

Editor's note: This essay was originally published in Discourse magazine. We are supposed to live in a post-truth world—I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that ...