The Chemical Heritage Foundation will become the Science History Institute on Feb. 1. (Joel Wolfram/WHYY) The Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Philadelphia science history museum and research library ...

“In an open-pit uranium mine in the southeastern part of the Gabon Republic, near the Equator on the coast of West Africa, ...

Science isn’t a “triumphant march”—it’s sloppy, messy, and full of stops and starts. Meet the people who tell that story. On October 4, 1957, Americans were shattered when Sputnik 1 launched into ...

The Science History Institute preserves and interprets the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. During a ceremony in Philadelphia on June 10, the American Chemical Society ...

“During the spring and early summer tornadoes are likely to occur between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. On April 3 of last year conditions were right. The first tornado struck at 1:10 P.M. By 5 ...

From the first woman mathematician inducted into the National Academy of Science to an astronomer who helped us understand how galaxies evolve, the women of the Texas Science community have helped ...

Carl Sagan lauded science as a candle that dispelled darkness.[1] Sagan's appreciation for science was preceded by George Sarton (1884-1956), the person who founded the study of the history of science ...