Michael Bycroft addresses the latest scholarly rows about where science originated....

The “dunescourse” — or “sietchposting,” as it is affectionately called — is vast....

How the history of eugenics informs "Dune."...

The power of Dune, of its Fremen, is rooted in the prophecy....

"Dune" itself is a work of ethnography — a gateway into a new world....

The question of “peak oil” or “peak spice" has always been a proxy for a paramount existential concern: whether we control anything at all....

Omnia El Shakry on the dream world of "Dune."...

In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present....

"Dune" marked a moment when this approach to experimental drugs entered pop culture....

What to make of Dr. Wellington Yueh?...

Julien Crockett talks with Justin E. H. Smith about his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is.”...

In a review of Markoff’s biography of Stewart Brand, W. Patrick McCray notes that Brand’s ability to recognize and cleave to power explains a great deal of his career....

Mario Biagioli and Alain Pottage get to the bottom of how scientific norms were radicalized by Trump’s EPA to turn against themselves....

From anti-vaxxers to Flat Earthers, the public’s (and scholars’) perception of science shifted sometime between 1990-2010, writes Michael Gordin....

Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley....

Wes Jackson, who won a MacArthur for the idea of perennial grains grown in mixtures, is quite sure we are getting less intelligent....

Paul Dicken marks the centenary of “The Meaning of Relativity,” Einstein’s attempt to explain his runaway theory and correct its “mad” cultural appropriations....