"Physics envy" is one name for it. It's the epithet that people in the physical sciences sometimes mockingly lob at research in other fields that, they think, tries to hide its lack of conceptual or ...

Future Tense explores new ideas and new technologies. The comparisons increased when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked the spirit of Churchill and the Blitz when addressing the British ...

The phrase “history repeats itself” isn’t just an old idiom — it’s a scientific truth, according to researchers who believe in cliodynamics, a transdisciplinary area of study that treats history as a ...

Numbers illuminate the shape of history. That’s a core belief of the Stanford archaeologist and historian Ian Morris, and his book Why the West Rules—for Now puts it into practice by quantifying the ...

Unlike physicists and chemists, historians have been unable to formulate grand equations or immutable laws. The trends of history, it would seem, are outside the scope of reproducible science. But a ...

Peter Turchin receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the Evolution Institute (US). They say history always repeats itself - empires rise and fall, economies boom and ...

Could gathering data from the past help us prevent a future disaster? An evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Connecticut has dedicated his career to answering this question. Professor ...

They say history always repeats itself – empires rise and fall, economies boom and bust – but is there a way to map and predict the dynamical processes of history? They say history always repeats ...