If we want to research a subject, how do we do it? We could read about it in books or do experiments in a lab. Or another way ...

Aristotle, one of the great minds of the classical world, ... Find out about a four-hundred-year-old thought experiment that upset the Aristotelian school of thought, ...

Aristotle called it the fifth element. Alchemists thought it was the key to the philosopher’s stone. Scientists believed it was the stuff light moved through. But it never existed at all.

Today's biologists think like Aristotle (Image: Prisma/UIG/Getty Images) The ancient Greek philosopher deserves our homage, and Armand Marie Leroi delivers it in his edifying and excellent book ...

Aristotle’s Lyceum provided the world’s first comprehensive set of courses on all aspects of knowledge. Although the little room where Aristotle probably taught had space for perhaps just 10 students, ...

Aristotle described about 500 creatures in his immediate environment. He also described animals he could not have seen, ... He has this elaborate theory about female fluids and reproduction.

I N A SLEEPY corner of Belgium, a democratic experiment is under way. On September 16th, 24 randomly chosen Germanophones from the country’s eastern fringe took their seats in a Citizens’ Council.