Silly Putty’s serious past.

Fancy some alchemical recipes from 15th-century Italy?

Do comics engage readers in ways that written words alone cannot?

In the 1920s a pioneering journalist summoned the might of American women to revive a Nobelist’s career.

In the 1930s a pride- and faith-fueled dispute between two Nobel Prize–winning physicists spilled onto the front page of the New York Times.

To fight air pollution, officials first had to convince Californians that carmakers were the enemy, not cars.