The history of pasteurization and the controversy surrounding it demonstrate the complexity of milk as a chemical substance and as the subject of polemics on pathology, modern farming, and health and nutrition.

How one man’s youthful rebellion may unlock a cure for cancer.

Too much coffee actually can kill you, but that’s not the most important thing about the chemistry of coffee.

New forensics techniques are allowing researchers to solve historical mysteries based on the small traces we leave on everyday objects.

A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.

An engraving in the Science History Institute’s collections hints at the ways art and science were intertwined in the Age of Enlightenment.