History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, describes the ideas underlying general relativ... Read more

William R. Newman, professor of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University, examines why one of the most in... Read more

Robert S. Westman describes a late 15th-century crisis about the status of astrology that led to Nicolas Copernicus’ gre... Read more

Tony Piro, the George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Carnegie Observatories, discu... Read more

The history of the aerospace industry in Southern California and its intersections with contemporary culture are the foc... Read more

The Huntington presents a fascinating conversation about the practice of medicine during the U.S. Civil War and its dram... Read more

Best-selling author Andrea Wulf (Founding Gardeners; The Brother Gardeners) discusses her new book on the extraordinary ... Read more

Neal Nathanson M.D., discusses a 1955 incident in which Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., inadvertently released ... Read more

Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, co-creators of “The Knick,” have a discussion and Q&A about their Cinemax series. Directe... Read more

Rosalind Williams, author of “The Triumph of Human Empire,” discusses how the writer Robert Louis Stevenson understood e... Read more

Nancy Tomes, professor of history at Stony Brook University, reflects on the impact of Norman Cousins’ groundbreaking 19... Read more

Ronald L. Numbers, historian of science and medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, discusses the history of ... Read more

Amanda E. Herbert, assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University, describes 17th- and 18th-century me... Read more

Jon Mee, professor of 18th-century studies at the University of York and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at Th... Read more

Astronomer Kevin Schlaufman, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, tells the story of exoplanets to d... Read more

Join Anat Shahar, staff scientist in the geophysical laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science, for an explorat... Read more

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, discusses the important ways... Read more

Bruce Moran discusses alchemy—a subject that he says is often greatly misunderstood and one that figures significantly i... Read more

Joe Palca, a science correspondent for NPR, talks about the new book he co-authored with Flora Lichtman, “Annoying: The ... Read more

Simon Winchester, author of The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, tells the ext... Read more