An interview with Caitlin D. Wylie, a social scientist who analyzes “behind-the-science work” to understand how knowledge is produced and who produces it.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

The submersible Alvin is sixty years old this year. Numerous overhauls and upgrades have kept the craft going down (and coming back up!).

The rise of the internet age and digital spaces has created a whole new world for ethnographic investigation.

We all ponder them when standing in the cereal aisle of the grocery store, but why do we even have nutrition labels on our foods?

Ideas about economic class informed decisions about which recovered bodies would be preserved for land burial and which would be returned to the icy seas.

The days of celebrity oceanographers romancing the deep are gone, and maybe that’s a good thing.

How a dominant technology became viewed as the only option, with no need for better-designed competitors.

His theory of general relativity was well known in the U.S., but his 1921 visit caused a sensation.

Countless women scientists have have been shunted to the footnotes, with credit for their work going to male colleagues. This is called the Matilda Effect.