The absence of any contemporary portrait of Hooke stands out because he was a founding member, fellow,...
Science
Geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean. Introduction...
Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure...
The increased study of plants for artistic purposes during the Renaissance led to the development of the...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
In some cases, the explicit goal of these technologies is to deny opportunities to those deemed unfit....
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
We need to take people on their own terms, not on ours. And Roebling’s terms were the...
Roger Bacon believed people should test their beliefs rather than accepting what they’re told. Introduction It seems...
For fundamentalists, whose brains are not accustomed to thinking critically, rational arguments don’t make a dent with...
Christian fundamentalists have made a spectacular show of their rejection of modern science in response to the...
Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The internet has allowed pseudoscience to flourish. Artificial intelligence could help steer people away from the bad...
The Catholic Church didn’t finally officially recognize their own error until John Paul II in 1992. Introduction...
It all started with the realization that we can describe the dynamics of the universe within a...
NESSI views the galaxy in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. By Elizabeth Landau...
We have more neurons in our cortices than any other species, courtesy of an early technology –...
It was a matter of the right eclipse, the right place, and the right time. By Charles...
Humboldt almost invented the electric battery– in fact, he came very close. Alexander von Humboldt was born...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
Was there something about the Neanderthals’ cognitive capacity that didn’t measure up? By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as...
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration of Latin America. Introduction The...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...
Emile Herman Grubbe discovered the x-rays could cure, but he was right for the wrong reasons. Radiation...
How a New York farmer’s elaborate hoax “proved” giants roamed the Earth. One Sunday afternoon in October...