The debate about nature and nurture has roots that stretch back at least thousands of years, to Ancient Greek theorizing about the causes of personality. During the modern era, theories ...

Spreading out particles NOVA: What is string theory? Witten: String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a ...

Also see the Nature Education Knowledge articles by Shefferson (2010), Young (2010), and Fabian and Flatt (2011). The Basics of Life History Theory Life history theory seeks to explain how natural ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...

In their quest to understand the fundamental forces of the universe, scientists have gotten stuck on gravity. While the other ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A study, recently published in Nature, is the first to seriously question dinosaur evolution. Where and when did the first dinosaurs appear on Earth? For the last ...

Narratives of the natural have also been foundational to political "states of nature" theories from Hobbes to Social Darwinism, from Deep Ecology to Neo-Liberalism. Posthumanist and ...

Three different quantum field theories deal with three of the four ... at all – leading us to a fundamental conundrum about the nature of basic reality. But as to what it all means, no one ...

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves ...

It’s the only one of the four fundamental forces of nature described by general relativity, and the only one that quantum theory cannot address. Coming up with a model that ties up all four ...