Articles in Science & Nature tagged with History

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.