Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

Why history matters in science education For decades, research has shown students better understand how science works "behind the curtains"—what has been called "nature of science"—when they learn how ...

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On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. My office sits in the extension between Guyot ...

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...

In all, 180 students have received research fellowships this summer, many of whom are undertaking their work on campus, ...

There have been fireworks aplenty to celebrate America's 250th anniversary, but have you ever wondered where fireworks came ...

Hans Aarsleff, a professor of English and renowned scholar of the history of the study of language, died July 1. He was 100.

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

The Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island maintain voluntary isolation. They use traditional methods for hunting, ...