History

A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote.

If you want to know what it takes to succeed in science, head to the Nobel Prize ceremony.

Here’s a hint: He didn’t eat processed foods and sugar.

David Gibbins on his 3 greatest revelations while writing <i>A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks.</i>

How a shared love of algae got a community of women hooked on marine science.

Charles I’s neck bone, Queen Victoria’s armpit, and other fabulously gruesome medical tales.

An inventor, a bird, and a plan to connect all the minds in the world.

Photos from the Mütter Museum’s newly searchable collection.

Photographs taken from before terrorists destroyed the site are helping researchers digitally resurrect it.

Finding beauty in science is timeless. But we shouldn’t let it blind us.

What a particular shade of black can teach us about an ancient civilization.

In the age of self-experiment, scientists took mind-altering drugs to test the limits of subjectivity.