History of Science

Double-blind peer review could level the playing field a bit more for women and minorities in science

Primordial gases confirm the cause of the East African Rift

Aqueducts, dams and irrigation projects all made rapid development possible in the arid West

You don’t need your nose to know what something smells like. Perfumers and astronomers can detect and recreate scents based on the chemical signatures of the molecules in the air, even if that air is very very far away.

Musk, the CEO of electric car company Tesla Motors and rocket company SpaceX, pledged the money in support of a museum to be built on the grounds of the Serbian-American inventor's laboratory in New York

A co-designer of an experiment that might have confirmed gravitational waves isn't bothered by criticism that cosmic dust may account for his results

After much rejoicing at the news last month that LEGO would mass-produce a set of female scientist minifigures, the company has released a prototype of the final set to its original designer, Ellen Kooijman (a.k.a.

Science museums should recruit the public in confronting the planet’s toughest challenges

A global immunization campaign in the mid-20th century eradicated the smallpox virus, one of the deadliest diseases in history

Sixty-year-old ampoule contains smallpox DNA, and it is unclear whether the virus is viable.

Even before I arrived at the annual “Dialogue” of the Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland, California, think tank that challenges mainstream environmental positions, I was arguing about it.

High-profile reports claiming an easy way to create pluripotent cells were flawed.