IF one may judge by the appearance of the bookshop windows and the bookstalls there is, at the moment, quite a minor boom in popular science in the publishing world. The part played by science in the ...

Predicting the end of the world has been immemorially the privilege and pastime of religious fanatics and charlatans. In modern times such predictions have been the province of loose-spoken scientists ...

In their soundproof hearing room, members of Congress’ Joint Committee on Atomic Energy broke a three-month deadlock (TIME, March 23). By unanimous vote last week, they elected New York’s ...

Nearly four months of painful introspection have passed since the U.S. Department of Commerce levied their ban on Chinese telecom manufacturer ZTE. While now already lifted, the ban turned out to be a ...