ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A competition for attention lies at the heart ...

Matthews is a fellow of science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Russell is the Huffington fellow in child health and L.E. Simmons senior fellow in health ...

THE National Institute of Sciences of India has recently issued the first number of Indian Science Abstracts, an annotated bibliography of science in India, including abstracts of all papers published ...