In 2007 I published a book called Animals Matter and at about the same time Erin Williams and Margo Demello published a book called Why Animals Matter. And just this month another book called Why ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about psychology and education research and policy. When I was a graduate student I read academic career books and ...

At the end of a lecture on astronomy, describing how the planets orbit the Sun, a little old lady at the back of the room stood up and said: "What you've told us is all rubbish. The world is really a ...

Matter is a lush tapestry, woven from a complex assortment of threads. Diverse subatomic particles weave together to fabricate the universe we inhabit. But a century ago, people believed that matter ...

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“I define the Organism, or natural Machine, a machine in which each part is a machine […], whereas the parts of our artificial machines are not machines” (Ref. 1). This statement made by Gottfried ...

Before scientists discovered the new state of matter last week, we were basically all used to just three states of matter. After all, during our daily lives we encounter some variety of solids, ...