
Advanced Gun Technology, 1915

Advanced Gun Technology, 1915

The Most Important Number in Climate Change
Just how sensitive is Earth's climate to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide?


"Tin Hats" Return, 1915

"Primitive Warfare" in 1915

Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change
Global warming has become a 1-degree Celsius reality, making progress at climate talks in Paris even more imperative

The Phonograph Goes to War, 1915

When Naïve Realism Collides with Postmodernism
A scientific realist defends his faith against Fire in the Mind, a classic work of postmodern science journalism.

Stephen Jay Gould on Marx, Kuhn and Punk Meek
Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould was influenced by Marx and Kuhn as well as by Darwin.

Electronic Ears for Air Defense, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 30, 1915

Bronze Age Skeletons Were the Earliest Plague Victims
Deadly disease suspected to have driven mass migrations across Europe and Asia

U.S. Navy and the Arms Race, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 23, 1915

A Fossil Find Gets Entangled with South Africa's Apartheid Past
Some prominent South Africans associate Homo naledi with stereotypes of blacks promulgated during decades of whites-only rule