An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. The 1633 trial of Galileo over his backing of ...

The university has become, in recent years, a testing ground for many of the debates playing out in society at large. The organized labor of graduate student unions and the defunding of the humanities ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs — the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...