It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold ...

As historian and WWII resistance fighter Marc Bloch is inducted into the Pantheon, Sharon Gaffney is pleased to welcome Dr.

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

Why history matters in science education For decades, research has shown students better understand how science works "behind the curtains"—what has been called "nature of science"—when they learn how ...

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 ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

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We’ve all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, ...

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