Historian of science and media Ingrid Ockert discusses the exact moment Carl Sagan began wearing turtlenecks, how NOVA changed television, and the key to any successful show: respect the audience.

How do art historians know who painted a work of art and when it was painted? For the Institute’s Elisabeth Berry Drago, the answer is hidden in the details.

Peek into the studio of author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, and watch the creative process behind his book Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb.

A harrowing eye surgery may have given the impressionist painter the ability to see UV light.

A reclusive expert of 19th-century photography laid the foundation for green chemistry solutions emerging today.

How a simple operation—castrating little boys—produced the greatest singers the world has ever known.