People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

Prizes and honors are seldom over-estimated by genuine men of science, and there are, of course, occasional cases of unrecognized genius in obscurity. But the scientific world usually knows its own ...

Dressed warmly, his radio turned low, Astronomer Gustaf Strömberg of the Mount Wilson Observatory spends night after night looking up at a great curved slit of the heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden ...

1st-8th editions published by the Science Press; 9th edition by Bowker and Science Press; 10th edition by Jaques Cattell Press. Editors: 1906-38, J. Mck. Cattell (with D.R. Brimball, 1921; J. Cattell, ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

THE man of science will find this new publication a very useful addition to the books of reference kept on his desk. The volume begins with lists of the heads and senior professors of the world's ...

THIS work is now complete in four very readable volumes. It consists of thirty-eight profusely illustrated chapters arrayed almost without plan, each of which is a little essay, usually more or less ...

YEAR by year our dependence on laboratory findings has increased in inverse ratio to our comprehension of the scientific processes which nurture us or destroy us. Few scientists have the time or ...

“AS the artist, after painstaking effort, steps llhack from his easel to view his picture as a whole, so it may not be unprofitable for the scientist to forsake from time to time his own specialty and ...