This bitter dispute set the stage for the modern weather forecast.

A complexity theorist explores how science and culture co-evolve.

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force Supply Depot in Ohio was looking for a faster way to store and fetch information from its sizable inventory. They had 50,000 items in their records and wanted instant access to each one of them. The dominant storage technologies of the time—punch cards, magnetic tape and magnetic […]

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For these scientists, success and fame did not come in equal measure.