A science historian looks to the past to understand our current moment, and how ghostwriting in scientific papers is harming ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Germ theory is the idea that pathogens can invade the human body and cause disease — and it ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This accession consists of records documenting the History of Science Society's Dibner Visiting Historians of Science Program, which assisted ...
In a 2007 decision, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens contended that when Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1970, “the study of climate change was in its infancy” and it wasn’t until ...
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Christa Kuljian received research funding from Harvard University's Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and from the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine ...
From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...
Edouard Machery is professor of history and philosophy of science and director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. John M. Doris is professor of ...
In a new book, Thomas Levenson, a professor of science writing at MIT, traces the history of germ theory while tackling the broader question of why some ideas take hold and become accepted while ...
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