history of science

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Retrospective: The Wire Science in 2019

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/12/2019

In 2019, The Wire Science published stories that interrogated...

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Discovering Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay as a Popular Science Writer

Amiya P. Sen 27/06/2019

Unknown to many, novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay devoted considerable attention...

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Lise Meitner – the Forgotten Woman of Nuclear Physics Who Deserved a Nobel Prize

Timothy J. Jorgensen 12/02/2019

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish...

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A New Science Archives Preserves the Ways of Seeing Science’s People

Renuka Kulkarni 05/02/2019

The curators of an art installation at the venue...

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Does the Indian Science Congress Acknowledge the Need to Be Reflexive?

Avijit Pathak 05/01/2019

Barring some remarkable exceptions, scientists tend to confine themselves...

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What a Fossil Revolution Shows About the Evolution of ‘Big Data’

David Sepkoski 14/02/2018

Palaeobiology’s success has paralleled the advent of computing and...

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Exploring a Global History of Science

University of Cambridge 01/09/2017

The history of science has been centred for too...