The history of the natural reactor is an extraordinary sequence of seemingly improbable events. First, uranium from an entire ...

Discover the Windover Archaeological Site, a significant find in Florida that provides insights into ancient life and raises ...

The Chemical Heritage Foundation will become the Science History Institute on Feb. 1. (Joel Wolfram/WHYY) The Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Philadelphia science history museum and research library ...

The Science History Institute preserves and interprets the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. During a ceremony in Philadelphia on June 10, the American Chemical Society ...

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, ...

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 ...

A U.S. District Court has issued an order stopping the Trump-Vance administration from censoring American history and science ...

From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of the Texas Science community have helped ...

Smithsonian.com is sharing the stories of women scientists who also changed the world, but were written out of history. These pioneers paved the way for future generations of women scientists and ...

A century ago, people needed help to understand science. Much as they do today. Then as now, it wasn’t always easy to sort the accurate from the erroneous. Mainstream media, then as now, regarded ...

Carl Sagan lauded science as a candle that dispelled darkness.[1] Sagan's appreciation for science was preceded by George Sarton (1884-1956), the person who founded the study of the history of science ...