Svante Arrhenius, awarded with the Nobel prize, discovered at the end of the 19th century that CO2 emissions caused an increase in the planet's temperature.

How did our medieval ancestors use dove faeces, fox lungs, salted owl or eel grease in medical treatments? A Wellcome funded project at Cambridge University Library is about to find out.

A scientific dispute takes a violent, absurd turn.

Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they would see – once they ascended into the clouds.

You can watch this guy Galen lick a pile of highly radioactive uranium off the palm of his hand and ignite a chunk of plutonium into a shower of flaming dust. The guy also drank reactor cooling pool water for fun and liked to go swimming in the pool to relax.

Before two deadly nuclear mishaps, scientists used to risk “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.”

Almost 300 years after his death, Sir Isaac Newton remains one of the most influential thinkers in history. What are some of his most enduring inventions?

A 1954 report from the birthplace of the atomic bomb wants you to know that everything is totally “normal” in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Reading about the various radiation hazards in the Manhattan Project's history can be spine-tingling, even with a measured view of the dangers. By Alex Wellerstein. (Nov. 20)

The birth of science in Europe was the greatest revolution of all, argues this dazzling polemic/ By Lorraine Daston.

The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?” By Maria Dolan. (2012)