In Magus (Harvard Univ., Dec.), historian Grafton traces the connection between Renaissance-era magic and the birth of science. How did you come to this topic? I realized that there were connections ...

The Connecticut Science Center in Hartford is all about science, things that can be proved. The “Harry Potter” books and movies are all about fantasy and magic, things that can’t be proved. Still, ...

It wasn’t until Ioannis Miaoulis, president and director of the Museum of Science, took his 16-year-old daughter to preview “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” that he realized how powerful the event would ...

Science cast its spell last night over 10-year-old Jacob W. Dugard of Westboro, which might not be so odd except that the potion that ensnared him included a bit of sand, shredded disposable diapers ...

This article treats two modes of political causation. First, the contemporary scientific mode that most social sciences simply take for granted and assume, quite unthinkingly, to be universally ...

The 2006 La Mesa sword murder of Scott Martinez was colder than the cold steel of a murderous sword, despite the blood possibly belonging to the killer found on the scene. Cold, that is, until four ...

Three Coral Springs High School students conjured spells for Morrow Elementary School fourth-graders on Tuesday — blue ink vanishing on white clothing, flames bursting from a Charlie Chip can, ...