Stamped in relief on the back of the heavy gold medal given to Nobel Prize recipients in the sciences is the image of two women. One, bare-breasted and holding a cornucopia, represents Nature. Pulling ...

Roberto Lo Presti applauds a brilliant reappraisal of Aristotle as the father of observational biology. Aristotle is considered by many to be the first scientist, although the term postdates him by ...

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 ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it ...

The ancient Greeks of Miletus looked for the underlying reality. Thales reportedly thought the world was made of water; Anaximander proposed a mysterious substance called the infinite; Anaximenes ...