In Physics, Book II, Ch. 3 Aristotle distinguishes four causes or, better, four explanatory factors that can be given in the answer to the question of why an entity changes in whatever ways it does ...

Scientists are uncovering the mysteries of the Mpemba effect. The Mpemba effect, whereby hotter systems can cool faster than ...

When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics ...

I saw Jacques Cousteau’s film The Silent World many moons ago when I was a little ankle-biter; all I remember about it is ...