From the mundane to the iconic, the physical to the symbolic, the striking presence of chairs in the history of science begs to be acknowledged and understood. By Omar W. Nasim / MIT Press Published ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...

In the late 19th century, a Scottish immigrant named Williamina Fleming went from working as a maid to a career as a pioneering astronomer. The claim that Fleming went from being a maid to building a ...

In July 1878, six women scientists, their attendants, a photographer and an artist gathered in Colorado on a panoramic plateau at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. The group had a shared mission: ...

WE have read this book with very great interest and with no little pleasure. The authoress (for this learned volume is indeed the product of a lady's pen) has modestly described her “History of ...

Camille Flammarion’s work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an ...