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Oct 28, 2022

Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part One

LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe

Oct 13, 2022

From Siberia to NASA: Confronting Sexism in Science

PHILIP BALL | Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to send a small spacecraft to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche 2

Sep 15, 2022

Science as a Human Story: The Royal Society Recognizes Philip Ball

PHILIP BALL | I’m particularly keen to set science within a wider historical, cultural, and philosophical context

Aug 18, 2022

The NASA Psyche Project: A Story from The Intermission

LINDY ELKINS-TANTON | Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution.

May 20, 2022

Quantum Information Theory: Philip Ball on Beyond Weird, Part Two

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author

Mar 11, 2022

Cosmic Humility: Harvard’s Avi Loeb on Extraterrestrials and The Future of Science

AVI LOEB | In the Fall of 2017, atop the dormant volcano Heleakalā, in Maui, Hawaii, Pan-STARRS, a state-of-the-art network of telescopes

Feb 15, 2022

MRB TV Goes Beyond Weird: Quantum Mechanics With Philip Ball, Part One

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is the former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author of over 25 books on science

Feb 11, 2022

For the Life of Science: Philip Ball on Quantum Physics and The Writing Life

PHILIP BALL | But for me, it just feels like it’s too good an opportunity to waste not to broaden my horizons with every book I write.

Oct 21, 2021

How Special Is Science?

PHILIP BALL | Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world, using it to formulate theories and hypotheses

Dec 4, 2020

What is Soft Matter?

PHILIP BALL | The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble.

Mar 12, 2020

Science and Human Values: An Interview with Peter Harrison

PETER HARRISON | Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and it affects all of us.