Finding the flaw in falsifiability
Science is more complex than Karl Popper thought
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Manufacturing firsts in physics
The first collisions at accelerators tend to be stage managed
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Love on the edge of the universe
In October 1998 Janna Levin arrived to start a postdoc at Sussex University’s Astronomy Centre. She had just said good-bye to her beloved California, swapping the sun of Berkeley for the grey sk...
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What does energy really mean?
The origin and historical development of the word "energy"
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This is your philosophy
Physicists thinking philosophically: the results of our survey
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Are physicists useful?
“But the greatest error of all is mistaking the ultimate end of knowledge. For some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety...
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What’s your philosophy?
In an attempt to generate some hard statistics about what physicists think about philosophy, Robert P Crease invites you to take part in a special poll
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Spotting craziness in cloud-cuckoo-land
Few things in life are utterly black or white. Even scientific ideas come in shades of “truth”, which is arrived at differently in different kinds of science. There are other gradations to...
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Do we need nuclear power?
Does the world needs nuclear power? Peter Hodgson and Dennis Anderson take up the debate
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Facing up to the mystery of God
“Science without religion is lame, but religion without science is blind.” Einstein’s teasing remark is just one of the many contributions by scientists to religious thought that hav...
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