Historians, religious scholars and humanities academics recently gathered at Bowdoin for an interdisciplinary symposium to discuss new research on how science operated before the scientific revolution ...

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 ...

Grounded in research and cultivating inquiry, American medicine, at its best, is the envy of the world. Patients from around the globe—with the means to afford it—travel to centers of excellence like ...

On September 7, 1674, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, a fabric seller living just south of The Hague, Netherlands, burst forth from scientific obscurity with a letter to London’s Royal Society detailing an ...

The world is on the cusp of the next great leap in scientific understanding, with rapid and simultaneous advancements in fields such as genetics, machine learning, health, and energy that will forever ...

The global surge in renewable energy and electric vehicles necessitates an exponential increase in manufacturing capacity for components like solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries.