Bert Hansen

Understanding past attitudes toward science and medicine through children’s books.

Or will the scientist’s 200th birthday be his last hurrah?

To speed reopening, government and business leaders are pushing a modern version of a centuries-old idea.

How a 19th-century invention could save lives today.

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows how power and science were intertwined in early modern Europe.

It’s one thing to make a scientific discovery, but making it count is another thing entirely.

An engraving hints at the ways art and science were intertwined in the Age of Enlightenment.

Candy stores in the 19th century sold sweets as deadly as they were delicious.

A simple invention that saved lives and led to the discovery of a hidden form of life.

Using chemistry to put a lid on unsavory practices.

Albert Edelfelt broke the rules when he painted his friend Louis Pasteur in the scientist’s natural element.

In the 1950s comic books took Mexico’s youth by storm. But alongside familiar superhuman avengers were other kinds of heroes: real-life chemists.