Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
This episode highlights a 17th-century edition of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World), complete with interactive diagrams.
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.
The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.
Faced with the prospect of a world without oil, French engineer Eugene Jules Houdry turned low-grade coal into gasoline.
When French authorities learned about some missing uranium, they thought someone had stolen it to make rogue atomic bombs. It turned out to be more incredible than that.
The downside of using genetic genealogy to fight crime.
In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean examines the dark, restless side of the father of the atomic bomb.
