Every year we kick off the holiday season with a roundup of books recommended by the War on the Rocks team. Enrich your ...

He was a mathematician nearly two millennia out of time: “Archimedes was the earliest thinker to develop the apparatus of an ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

General Science is closely interrelated with General Awareness, as scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and ...

Some of Sigmund Freud’s ideas are now ridiculed. Others are on shaky scientific ground. But psychoanalytic theory can help us ...

One familiar definition of a metaphor is that it is essentially a figure of speech which uses one thing to mean another by ...

Originally published on 11 May 2024. Kim Beazley was appointed as Minister for Defence on 13 December 1984. He oversaw a ...

The integration of knowledge graphs with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a pivotal area of exploration.

Historian Han Qi on why the exchange of scientific knowledge is so important - from astronomy and salt wells to high-speed ...

Understanding why we think the way we do is a hot topic for many of 2025’s books – that and finding new ways to re-evaluate ...

Happy holidays! As we do at the end of each year, The Review asked a dozen of our contributors to recommend scholarly books ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children ... These were the most popular ones. America’s Best Dishes: After traveling to more ...