The Nobel Prize might be the one science prize you’ve heard about. But does it really recognize the most important science?| Science News Explores
Carl Linnaeus organized nature for us. Sweden’s chief royal physician, he became the “father of modern taxonomy,” traveling the world classifying and naming its plants and animals. The man was famously logical, methodical, orderly, rational. And he was desperate for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to organize a hunt for mermaids. Was […] The post And Why Not Look for Mermaids? appeared first on Common Reader.| Common Reader
Attacking research at universities and national laboratories could lead to the collapse of American science and the loss of future GDP.| Galileo Unbound