A new way to detect breakthroughs in science: Large-scale analysis reveals 'disruptive' innovations in research history

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...
The New York Times

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. The 1633 trial of Galileo over his backing of ...
Science Friday

A Science Historian Tackles Ghostwriting In Scientific Papers

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 ...
WHYY

Food fight: The history of the school lunch at Philly’s Science History Institute

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, ...
BBC

Oxford's History of Science Museum exhibition marks centenary

A museum collection which inspired Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is going on permanent display. Oxford's History of Science Museum is marking its centenary with a display of its founding ...