What does the horizon of science look like? Who are the scientists that are making it happen?

Reid these vessels underwent considerable adaptation over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries in response to evolving technologies and the demands of their industry...

Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.

Will’s book is an ethnography of taxi-moto drivers in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city...

Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....

By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...

Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...

Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science....

Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...

Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?

When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...

David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science....

Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...

An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...

A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.

What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?

Leys focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive...

The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors and visionaries believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner...

Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..

Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...

Ramirez examines eight inventions―clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips―and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?

Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...