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 ...

The history of science has never had the easiest stories to tell. A field suspended between the two cultures, it’s been contested territory for as long as it has existed: rife with clattering jargon, ...

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 ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

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.

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 ...

Heimlich writes that since he first described the technique he has heard of 162 people whose lives were saved.” “What has science to say of the future? The physicist can tell us that the universe is ...

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 ...