Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate. Two main theories exist: The virus spilled over from an animal into people ...

The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

A new book looks at competing theories of how the Western Hemisphere was settled Scientific understanding of the peopling of the Americas is as unsettled as the Western Hemisphere once was. Skeletal ...

According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...