According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. Since at least the 17th century, science has struggled with words. Francis Bacon, ...

IN his recent book on “Clothes”, Mr. Eric Gill says that “in our hearts we know science for what it is—the greatest frivolity of history.... If it was not that science enables a lot of people to get ...

THE first volume of Dr. Sarton's “Introduction to the History of Science”, already reviewed in NATURE, was universally and deservedly acclaimed as a major contribution to our knowledge of the growth ...

Astronomers once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century, scientists thought the shape of a person’s skull could reveal their mental strengths or weaknesses. And in the 20th ...

We all know the scene -- James Watson and Francis Crick, discoverers of the DNA double helix, walk into a pub in Cambridge and declare, "We have discovered the secret of life!" The rest is Nobel Prize ...

Instead of yesteryear’s dry and dusty lectures, science communicators are creating new and exciting ways to engage with science. The original cast of 3-2-1 Contact! From left, Marc (Leon W. Grant), ...

Right now, many of us are depending on science. We're turning to medical experts and doctors for answers on what to do and how to stay safe during a global pandemic. But what happens when our ...

A range of tours that cover the historical development of scientific thought and practice from the 16th century onwards whilst visiting some of the most stimulating European cities and worldwide sites ...