Most Read This Week In History Of Science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences.

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
The Domestic Revolution
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Oxford Textual Perspectives)
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
The Seven Measures of the World
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

Nick Lane
Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead.
Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Ananyo Bhattacharya
Von Neumann enjoyed driving very much but had never passed a test. At Mariette’s suggestion, he bribed a driving examiner. This did nothing to improve his driving. He sped along crowded roads as if they were many-body problems to be negotiated by calculating the best route through on the fly. He often failed, and an intersection in Princeton was soon christened ‘von Neumann corner’ on account of the many accidents he had there. Bored on open roads, he slowed down. When conversation faltered, he ...more
Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

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