History of Science

After netting the world's highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics

Nikhil Krishnan reviews "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion," by Rebecca Lemov.

The Euclid space telescope has spotted 26 million galaxies in just one week of observations.

Kathryn Yusoff sparked a culture war with her latest book, suggesting slavery and white supremacy informed the work of geology's founding fathers. Here, she and other experts suggest that attitudes have changed little since

Since 1924, scientists have been attempting to communicate with extraterrestrial lifeforms. New technology could finally make that a reality.

For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table.

These invisible signals could be the key to it all.

Her name was on the patent for tamoxifen, but Dora Richardson's story was lost until now

When it comes to understanding the entire Universe, there are impressive lists one can make about both what we do and what we don't yet understand, at least, in a provisional sense. Modern science…

Elizabeth Kolbert reviews "Dr. Calhoun's Mousery," by Lee Alan Dugatkin, and "Rat City," by Edmund Ramsden and Jon Adams.

A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a 'population bomb'

Arizona State University collaborates with OpenAI to explore generative AI's role in enhancing learning in education.

It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated, newly unearthed documents show.

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine.

Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates.

Scientists decode Johannes Kepler's 417-year-old sunspot drawings, solving a long-standing mystery about solar cycles and the grand solar minimum.

Earth was cooler than usual in the 16th and 17th centuries and scientists are still trying to figure out why. New analysis of sunspot drawings by Kepler, in ...

Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his studies of the heavens, was also a alchemist. A new study of glass shards reveals what Brahe was working...

Using modern techniques, researchers have re-examined Johannes Kepler's half-forgotten sunspot drawings and revealed previously-hidden information about the solar cycles before the grand solar minimum.

Physicists drew on statistical techniques used to analyze gravitational waves.