Galileo Galilei championed the heliocentric model of the solar system and advanced modern astronomy with telescopic ...

That same month, the world also lost another great social scientist, the Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven, founder of the World Database of Happiness. When I interviewed Veenhoven a few years ago, he ...

Who could imagine a world without plasma TV screens? Or a blood test without measurements of key electrolytes, sodium, and ...