Bowdoin may have met Benjamin Franklin as early as 1743, and the two became frequent collaborators and correspondents on scientific subjects.
These three artists see magical thinking as an acknowledgment and openness to causal connections without a correspondent need for scientific proof.
It took national newspapers a long time to assign special correspondents to cover scientific and technological issues.
BBC News environment correspondent Richard Black traces key milestones, scientific discoveries, technical innovations and political action.
Darwin himself had direct contact with the Florence collections at a later stage of his scientific activity, thanks to one of his correspondents, the vertebrate paleontologist Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843 1923).
The apparent cannibalism of wasps toward adults of their own species was noted in a scientific journal as early as 1884, when a correspondent of the journal Nature reported observing some trapped wasps beginning to devour a weakened companion.
But such modern taxonomic dicing is far removed, in time and spirit, from the tale of scientific buccaneering and creationist discomfiture that Reel, a former correspondent for The Washington Post, tells in this intriguing book.
Over the past 10 months, contributing correspondent John Bohannon submitted faux papers with blatant scientific flaws to 304 open-access journals (60).
Some see themselves as part of the scientific priesthood, but you should be independent, like a political correspondent looking at politicians.
Several of its researchers tell Canadian correspondent Andrew Fazekas about the challenges, not all of them scientific, these researchers face.
Yet one week later, The Times printed another Page 1 wrap-up of European news in which Our Own Correspondent (the same one?) wrote: "Roentgen's photographic discovery increasingly monopolizes scientific attention.
