If you weren’t there to experience the cultural impact of The Madbury Club, you might not even know it happened. Today, if you type madburyclub.com into a web browser, you’ll be redirected to an ...

A new book covering the history of scientific inquiry invites us to marvel at the elegance of experimentation. Some philosophers have argued that “beauty” in science stands as a proxy for truth. Many ...

If “art for art’s sake” is a desirable slogan, why not “science for science’s sake”? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces’ research grants or a corporation’s search for ...

Robert Crease’s book is a bargain: you get two good things for the price of one. First, you have a stimulating series of essays about the history of science, each of which describes a landmark ...

The acoustic properties of an ultracold fermion gas have been measured either side of the superfluid transition temperature in an experiment that has been described as “near perfect” and “beautiful”.