In school-choice circles, Milton Friedman’s 1955 essay “ The Role of Government in Education ” is considered a (if not the) ...

Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA David Dr. Grinspoon joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions ...

The way of multisensory data integration is a crucial step of any data fusion method. Different physical types of sensors (optic, thermal, acoustic, or radar) with different resolutions, and different ...

Steven Shapin is an emeritus professor in the history of science at Harvard. His books include The Scientific Life, A Social History of Truth and Never Pure.

The complex, dynamic and transdisciplinary nature of military capability systems often requires a multi-method approach to facilitate development of new capabil ...

The concern that it might be impossible to go from many irreducible objectives to a univocal, all-of-those-things-considered assessment of outcomes stems from worries about value-incommensurability.

President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two sexes — male and female — includes language that is biologically inaccurate and erases trans, nonbinary, and intersex people from ...

Incommensurate order, in which two or more mismatched periodic patterns combine to make a long-range ordered yet aperiodic structure, is emerging as a general phenomenon impacting the crystal ...

SARAH FLEISHER TRAINOR, Realms of Value: Conflicting Natural Resource Values and Incommensurability, Environmental Values, Vol. 15, No. 1 (February 2006), pp. 3-29 ...

Regarding the tale of Hippasus, the element that historians agree is most likely true is that the Pythagoreans at some point proved the incommensurability of certain quantities, from which the ...