作者: Angela N. H. Creager

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of …

Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticid …

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64, 000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even …

Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable …