Science isn’t a “triumphant march”—it’s sloppy, messy, and full of stops and starts. Meet the people who tell that story. On October 4, 1957, Americans were shattered when Sputnik 1 launched into ...

David Wootton's The Invention of Science will cause arguments, and is all the better for it. The idea of a 'scientific revolution' — the supposed birth of modern science, beginning around the start of ...

In researching the history of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search a few years ago, I happened upon some amazingly gender-stereotyped publicity photographs of young female contestants in the 1950s.

According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...

With To Explain the World, Nobel-prizewinning physicist Steven Weinberg is sure to raise the hackles of professional historians of science. The book is based on lecture notes for his undergraduate ...

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

It's a fine mess we've gotten ourselves into. Last week the National Climate Assessment report was released detailing the toll climate change is already taking on the United States in terms of ...

The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one--computer science. The term “Data Science” has emerged ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

A range of tours that cover the historical development of scientific thought and practice from the 16th Century onwards whilst visiting some of the most stimulating European cities and worldwide sites ...

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1955 - 2021 Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932 - 1954 The British Journal for the History of Science 1962 - 2019 Bulletin of the ...