President’s Column

Outgoing PASTCF President Arnold Rots explores wave-photon duality through interferometry, from radio telescopes to X-ray astronomy, revealing light's unexpected quantum behavior.

I would like to put the Scopes trial in a broader perspective, in the world of 1926 and a century later. Let’s be clear: this was about the government’s attempt to restrict what is acceptable in science, but also in religious life. With Tennessee’s Butler Act the...

As I pondered Hal Breitenberg’s announcement that the theme of this issue of SciTech† will be education, I wondered where to start. What does education mean to us? Let’s begin with something simple: to students education is a right, to society it represents an...

We are all aware that scientific research sometimes leads to unexpected discoveries. Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin is a well-known example, when he noticed that bacteria were being killed in a neglected petri dish in which mold had been...

I titled this column with the title of Tomáš Halík’s book The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change. Halík is a Czech theologian, philosopher, sociology scholar, and Roman Catholic priest. The book, first published in 2021, carries a further subtitle: On...

This column would have fit in well with the contents of the previous issue of SciTech†. But its subject matter presented itself more clearly in my consciousness later. The various tech companies that are active on the AI scene are racing each other to create a more...