The Wagner Free Institute of Science acquired its set of 28 mushrooms well over a century ago, but they haven't lost their color – and no, they don't stink. The collection is still in good shape ...

Explore 25 Old Theories Modern Science Proved Wrong, from flat earth to miasma. Discover how scientific understanding evolves ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Camille Flammarion's work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images ...

An examination of how a practice rooted in 19th-century psychiatric theory survived clinical repudiation, evolved through religious institutions, and became the subject of sweeping legislative action ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The article ...

French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon believed each person's physical measurements were as distinct as their fingerprints, and devised the first modern mug shots as part of his classification system ...

Thinking geographically about nineteenth-century science / Charles W. J. Withers and David N. Livingstone -- Sites and scales -- Refashioning the spaces of London science: Elite epistemes in the ...

In new novel The Naturalist Society, CU Boulder alum Carrie Vaughn offers a fresh take on historical fantasy For New York Times bestselling author and University of Colorado Boulder graduate Carrie ...

A sledgehammer dealt the final blow to New York City’s dream of a paleontology museum. On May 3, 1871, workers broke into the workshop of famed British artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Inside, they ...