“The center of our population has traveled westward, keeping curiously near the 39th parallel of latitude, never getting more ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Just because summer is over, it doesn’t mean that camps are coming to an end at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and ...

"Victorian history, science fiction, modern values, modern culture references, mix it all up and then add in a whole dose of ...

The open letter invoked a troubled past of manipulating science. “History illustrates, in no uncertain terms, the dangers of state-dictated ‘scientific truths,’” it says.

Science Ask Us Anything Chew on this: The 10,000-year history of gum The not-quite-snack has a storied past and some surprising benefits. Lauren Leffer Apr 14, 2025 8:00 AM EDT ...

Jesse Smith, director of curatorial affairs at the Science History Institute, curated ”Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray.” (Emma Lee/WHYY) Across the state, all students have ...

The history of women's contributions to the space industry is significantly shorter than it is for men, simply because women were dealt a delayed start in the race. For example, NASA's astronaut ...

Jacksonville's Museum of Science & History will close by Sept. 1 after decades at its Southbank home. Construction on MOSH's new $100 million Nortbank museum is not scheduled to begin until 2026.

Popular Science contributing writer Thomas Elway made a compelling case in 1929 for the possibility of alien life on the moon in the form of lunar crabs, with hard outer shells to “prevent loss ...