History of Science coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...

Rowan Hooper: Bill, when I mentioned in the office that you were coming in, people reacted like I’d said Ryan Gosling or David Beckham was visiting. Bill Bryson: It’s my looks. RH: Your 2003 book, A ...