How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

In our “modern world” in the 21 st Century, we’re still in the relatively early days of scientific thinking. Not all that long ago, the precursors of science were at the forefront of most people’s ...

Geno's plant-based nylon-6 threatens synthetics on the industrial scale while AeoniQ by Pangaia Lab is made purely from the ...

Real revolutions are rarely instantaneous. Their world-changing effects—like those from the invention of the printing press or the discovery of radioactivity—typically take generations to play out.

The organization and finance of innovation in American history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Financing invention during the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 / ...

Pauses in funding, communication freezes, reductions in funds to research institutions and the dismissal of scientists at federal agencies threaten American science. While some may support such ...