Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a ...

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

Visitors can wander through halls filled with dinosaur fossils, mounted mammals, minerals and global wildlife specimens.

Science occasionally gives us clearer views of the distant past. This year, researchers opened windows into the life and times of ancient Romans, impressionist painters and other towering historical ...

Have you ever taken a personality test seriously? Or maybe you’ve wondered if you could freeze yourself in liquid nitrogen to help revitalize your body postmortem? Human tendencies to believe in such ...

ICYMI: Acting upon a March executive order, the Department of the Interior removed from national park sites in September undeniable historical and scientific truths it decided it didn’t like. As ...

Students learned that the history of the Siberian Husky spans back nearly 8,000 years, and that a century ago, huskies were ...

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

National Science Day is celebrated every year on February 28 to commemorate the discovery of the Raman Effect by Sir C.V. Raman in 1928. This day marks a significant milestone in Indian science, as ...

The Museum of Science and History announced Jan. 8 the resignation of CEO Alistair Dove. In an email letter sent to “our MOSH ...