Making Space for Women in Astronomy
People

For centuries women have been looking at the stars despite earthly obstacles.
The Case of Continental Classroom
Culture

Before Bill Nye the Science Guy, there was Professor Harvey E. White of Continental Classroom.
Making the Deserts Bloom
Environment

Harnessing nature to deliver us from drought.
Distilled #8: Penicillin Jug
Health

Join Distillations podcast hosts Lisa Berry Drago and Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences
People

Why emphasizing intellectual achievement and scientific “genius” harms scientists with intellectual disabilities—and the rest of us.
Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science
Culture

Sex, pettiness, swinging, cemeteries, espionage, murder, and beheadings.