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 ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s ...
On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...
The Islamic Golden Age of Science is largely to thank for our scientific developments today. Around 750-1250 CE, the Islamic ...
A new Smithsonian book and exhibition explores the ongoing conflicts and reconciliations between faith and technology in American life Peter Manseau - Curator, Religion, National Museum of American ...
Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...
Penn History and Sociology of Science assistant professor Melissa Charenko recently published a new book discussing how ...
Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.
For all their flaws, lab mice have become an invaluable research model for genetics, medicine, neuroscience and more. But few people know the story of the first standardized lab mice. Redmond Durrell ...
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, ...
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 ...
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