Each station is to be capable of communication at a speed of 100 five-letter words per minute each way, during a daily ...

Cathryn Carson is professor of history of science, past director of the Office for History of Science and Technology and chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

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T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Memphis's Museum of Science and History has grown and adapted over nearly 100 years. Built by Grocery Store magnate Clarence Saunders as a private home, the pink marble mansion became a white elephant ...