James R. Voelkel reviews H. Floris Cohen’s How Modern Science Came into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough.

We begin the three-part series Blood, Sweat, and Tears. This week: blood.

Artworks from Beauvoir mansion in Biloxi were among the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Expert art conservators have been tasked with restoring them to their original beauty.

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.