Harvard professor emeritus Everett I. Mendelsohn stands on the Great Wall of China in July 2005. Mendelsohn, known for his pioneering work studying the history of biology and the relationship between ...

The museum's Hall of Immortals features 12 stone statues of important figures throughout medicine. "It starts with Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and goes through time ending with Marie Curie.

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

What drives a wealthy Danish-Norwegian general to delve into ship's logs and become almost obsessed with understanding ocean ...

The test subject that produced the first 3D magnetic resonance image was quiet and a bit hairy. Tough on the outside, the patient was a big softie at heart. It was also not human. Nobel Prize-winning ...

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, ...

If you've got kids in tow, plan on stopping by the Museum of Science & History, formerly known as the Pink Palace Museum. Housed in a flamboyant pink mansion constructed by supermarket tycoon Clarence ...

Science fiction is everywhere in our 21st century culture, from superheroes to spaceships. But there was a time it was an odd ...

Medical scholars say that efforts to find a singular cause for autism have historically led to scrutinizing parents and ...