THE standard view of the history of science has experimentalists such as William Harvey and Robert Boyle leading the way to arrive at modern scientific method. This in many ways leaves the natural ...

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...

Andrew Lowe is Professor of Plant Conservation Biology and Director of the Australian Centre of Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity at the University of Adelaide; Head of Science at the South ...