For much of this century, philosophers of science have focused most of their attention on theories and developments in the physical sciences. By contrast the biological and social sciences have been far less central. If in retrospect this focus appears one-sided, it is worth remembering that it has not been unmotivated. The revolutionary developments in […]

Fire-breathing dragons and virgin births are the stuff of myth and religion. Except in the field of tissue-culture microscopy and cloning technology where they have recently come together in a way that should alter the way many of us look at nature and demonstrate the risks in our habit of using it to help us […]

Would you ever have imagined that there is a whole universe of life in a drop of pond water? Or that every organ in your body is made up of tiny, living units called cells? No one did, until the invention of the microscope. No one is certain who invented the microscope. But it may […]