The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is doing its part to make sure everyone has opportunities for STEM ...

The table below sets out the time-scale of some of the major events in Earth history and developments in science and technology. It shows something of the parallel development of human ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

Of the history of eyeglasses, for instance, we learn that "Petrarch acquired his pair in the last decade of his life, sometime in the mid 1360s." But 14th-century men of science, devoted to ...

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina ...

Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea On This Day in History Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the ...

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 ...