Matthew Wills
Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.