Pierre Gy (1924–2015): a monumental scientific life

Pierre Bourdieu and the Epistemic Conditions of Social Scientific Knowledge

Pierre Bourdieu’s “epistemic reflexivity” is the cornerstone of his intellectual enterprise, underpinning his claims to provide distinctive and scientific knowledge of the social world. This article considers what this notion offers for research and how it needs to be developed further to underpin progress in social science. Many reflexive research practices are sociological, individualistic, a...

The First Scientific Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The southern site of the Pierre Auger Observatory is under the construction near Malargue in Argentina and now more than 60% of the detectors are completed. The observatory has been collecting data for over 1 year and the cumulative exposure is already similar to that of the largest forerunner experiments. The hybrid technique provides model-independent energy measurements from the Fluorescence...

The Scientific Life of

This article follows the scientific life of John Norris Bahcall, including his tenacious pursuit of the solar neutrino problem, his contributions to our understanding of galaxies, quasars, and their emissions, and his leadership of and advocacy for astronomy and astrophysics.

A scientific strategy for life chances

How much do we know about the impact of socioeconomic status on the brain, and how can that knowledge influence policy dialogues? ‘W hen neuroscience’, said David Cameron, ‘shows us the pivotal importance of the first few years of life in determining the adults we become, we must think much more radically about improving family life and the early years.’ It was January 2016, and the Prime Minis...

A radiographic survey of monumental masonry workers in Aberdeen.