When the iPhone launched in 2007, it was both the best phone the world had ever seen and Apple’s first phone. Dyson’s first ever Vacuum cleaner was the best ever vacuum ever made at launch. When Tony ...

Philosopher Thomas Kuhn's influential theory of how scientific knowledge is built introduced the term "paradigm shift" to explain a transformation of a field's ideas and methods. "A Paradigm Shift, or ...

Then a whole bunch of people's responses. Many common themes were touched upon, and some unique ones (I was surprised by the "UFO's are real" comment) It's a wonderful collection of truisms, maxims ...

Some people think Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy about scientific paradigms isn’t worth 20 cents. But many scientists, although they might quibble about the details, know that Kuhn, a ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argues Sui Huang from the Institute for Systems Biology, U.S., and colleagues in an essay published in the ...