The glass of science is half empty. Researchers across the globe are fixated on all that we do not know yet. It was the same one hundred years ago, and more than one hundred years before then too.
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They re there hidden in the world of atom, occupying your cells, dancing along the helical twists and turns of your DNA, and entangled in the ghost in the machine inside your brains.
You ll find them haunting the laws of thermodynamics, the mystical shiver of Einstein s Theory of Relativity, frolicking across the first microchips, and reaching across the Cosmos.
When Mexican-American historian of science and technology Dr Jimena Canales, author of
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, went looking, she found them lurking everywhere.
But Science s demons are not the supernatural souls of religion.
They re a visceral portal into the under-acknowledged power of the imagination in the scientific process.