Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure...
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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...
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,...
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...
Forensic medicine, also called “medical jurisprudence” or “legal medicine,” emerged in the 1600s. The Rise of Forensics...
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...