History of Science coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

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 ...

It doesn’t appear that anybody has noticed yet, but 2021 marks a rather important anniversary in the history of science and western civilization. It was 2,500 years ago this year that a philosopher ...

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 ...

In 1941, American chemist James Conant referred to the Second World War as “a physicist’s war.” The phrase gained currency as fighting raged and science was mobilized in the form of new technologies ...

How do we communicate the history of science? And which methods, formats and practices work best for doing so effectively? On 8 and 9 October at SISSA in Trieste, historians and science communicators ...

Yale University offers a Program in the History of Science and Medicine leading to the M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., and J.D./Ph.D. degree The History of Science and Medicine Program is a ...

Three centuries ago, when modern science was in its infancy, the gender disparity in education was not a gap but an abyss: few girls had any decent schooling at all. The emerging new science was ...

The study of the history and philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is generated, justified and transformed over time. Historian-philosophers trace the evolution of concepts, methods ...

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 ...

Equal Opportunity and Non-discrimination at Princeton University: Princeton University believes that commitment to equal opportunity for all is favorable to the free and open exchange of ideas, and ...