Why history matters in science education For decades, research has shown students better understand how science works "behind the curtains"—what has been called "nature of science"—when they learn how ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

Kirk Johnson announced today that he will step down as the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

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Author and historian Eddie Price will present the historical program “Homemaking on the Kentucky Frontier” at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, at the Owensboro Museum of Science and History. The program ...