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Science magazines are read by non-scientists and scientists who want accessible information on fields outside their specialization. Articles in science magazines are sometimes republished or summarized by the general press. Horisont is the oldest continuously published general science magazine in Estonia. Cover image from 1967.
This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.
1267: Roger Bacon publishes his Opus Majus, compiling translated Classical Greek, and Arabic works on mathematics, optics, and alchemy into a volume, and details his methods for evaluating the theories, particularly those of Ptolemy's 2nd century Optics, and his findings on the production of lenses, asserting “theories supplied by reason ...
Title page of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), an early popular-science book. Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is more broad ranging. It may be ...
This list includes well-known general theories in science and pre-scientific natural philosophy and natural history that have since been superseded by other scientific theories. Many discarded explanations were once supported by a scientific consensus , but replaced after more empirical information became available that identified flaws and ...
Science (1979–1986 magazine) Science & Diplomacy; Science & Spirit; Science Digest; Science News; Science World (magazine) The Sciences; Scientific American; Scientific American Mind; The Scientific Monthly; The Scientist (magazine) Seed (magazine) SERVO Magazine; Sexology (magazine) Skeptic (American magazine) Skeptical Inquirer; Sky ...
Edge – online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas; Exploratorium – museum in San Francisco; Frontiers of Science – comic strip; Guru Magazine – digital 'science-lifestyle' magazine; HowStuffWorks – website; Inside Science – BBC Radio 4 news stories keeping the audience abreast of important breakthroughs in science [14]
Scientific theories are distinguished from philosophical theories in that each of their theorems are statements about observable data, whereas a philosophical theory includes theorems which are ideas or principles.