In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn explained that a paradigm is a worldview that is vulnerable to being displaced when new ideas render it obsolete. It’s increasingly ...

Before the revolution triggered by Nicolaus Copernicus, a 16th-century cleric, the Earth was the unmoving centre of the cosmos. Afterwards, it was one of a family of planets swinging through space.

Engineers work outside the structure where the array of lasers at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory are focused. (Photo by David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images) In five ...

Scientific inquiry, like all other human activity, cannot be separated from the humans conducting the inquiry. While public discourse often treats science as sacrosanct and scientists as devoid of any ...