The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

Science, in practice, is a series of evolving processes informed by hypotheses and theories, with the hopeful endpoints of discovery and dissemination of knowledge to others. In a case study using ...

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 ...

Discover our collection catalogues, digital resources as well as blog posts, videos and images. Our print store is also available here. The Royal Society supports activities in the history of science ...

The March of Progress, first published by Rudolph Zallinger in 1965. Its over-simplified presentation of evolution is just as misleading as "whiggish" histories of science. Source: Wikimedia Two ...

In the 11th century in Cairo, the foundations for modern science were laid through the detention of an innocent man. The mathematician Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham had been tasked with regulating ...

2026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen, pioneer of high-energy neutrinos Francis Halzen is a leader in the study of neutrinos, ghostly particles from across the universe that hint at ...

Imagine you’re a scientist with a set of results that are equally well predicted by two different theories. Which theory do you choose? This, it’s often said, is just where you need a hypothetical ...