How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

Steve Jobs saw it coming. “I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology,” he said. “A new era is beginning.” Data scientists are catalyzing ...

From the 2014 Milken Institute Global Conference, the presentation below includes a panel discussion led by Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media. The panel includes representatives from companies like ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

Was the scientist Isaac Newton a grandfather of the American Revolution? When Newton published his revolutionary new theories of gravity and motion way back in 1687, I’m sure he didn’t expect it to ...