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 ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is closed for renovations, but the museum is continuing its tradition of ...

Charles Gillispie, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University and a trailblazer in the study of the history of science, died Tuesday, Oct. 6, in Princeton, New Jersey.

The Smithsonian offers fun and challenging experiences for K–12 kids interested in science, nature, technology, art, design, history, culture, or all of the above. These programs build confidence and ...

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 ...

Mechanical philosophies of nature flowered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when Enlightenment beliefs, grounded in reason and empirical observation, came to the fore. The whole Universe, ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are ...