Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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 ...

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 ...

With To Explain the World, Nobel-prizewinning physicist Steven Weinberg is sure to raise the hackles of professional historians of science. The book is based on lecture notes for his undergraduate ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one--computer science. The term “Data Science” has emerged ...

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, ...