The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.

What do you think explains the trade war - is it realism with its focus on power and conflict, or idealism with its faith in ...

Moreover, even idealists will admit that within the narrow confines of scientific realism a certain coherence may be achieved by introducing a quantity called energy. Statistical mechanics ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

“John Lockwood Kipling and John Griffiths started the drawing and painting course, and this is how academic realism entered ... ideals of what constituted scientific study and industrial purpose ...

The sci-fi and fantasy genres frequently go hand in hand, but only a few books blend them so well that the line between story ...