This story began, like so many in the history of science, with something we were not looking for. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we were studying a practical question: How do people move around in an enclosed space when you ask them to keep apart from one another? Watching the footage time after time, we noticed something odd: Almost every participant walked in loops that turned in the same direction, always counterclockwise. Stranger still, none of them seemed to have noticed they were doing it.

In a climate of increasing anti-vaccination sentiment and conspiracy theories, scepticism can be perceived as a threat to medical institutions. Historian Caitjan Gainty, author of the new book Healthy...

A revelatory account of the “wonder drug” theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of the mo...

Joint Meeting of The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science 12-16 July, 2026 Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

Aveva studiato le classi subalterne medievali e moderne ed era stimato anche per le sue analisi del presente: aveva 87 anni

February 04-06, 2027 SCARCE Workshop University of Bologna Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026

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The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

Your voice matters—take action now. The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in sup...

World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869–1900)

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