In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

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His management theory, published in the 1911 book “The Principles of Scientific Management,” focused on simplifying jobs to increase efficiency. Although many management theories have come and gone ...

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Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world's first to crack a deep scientific enigma. China has emerged as a science powerhouse in ...

That first week of the discoveries, did you anticipate at that point that this could be such a huge step for our understanding of genes? Until other examples are found of something new ...

David Baker receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fulbright, FNR Luxembourg, and the Qatar Nation Research Fund. Justin J.W. Powell has ...

Your fitness tracker probably tells you how many steps you take most days. And your device likely sets the goal of 10,000 steps a day or maybe that’s what you’ve entered as your daily step ...

It has been debated whether one should use active or passive voice. The scientific journal Nature states that one should use active voice as to convey the concepts more directly. It can be beneficial ...

Ian Walker Ian is a video game journalist and blogger with over 15 years of experience. He’s worked previously as a staff writer at Kotaku and editor-in-chief of the (sadly, now-defunct ...