Children’s author, inventor, and STEM educator Steven Stotts will host a special book signing event for his new children’s book, Stevie The Inventor and the Spark That Started It All, on Saturday, ...

How did we forget about Alexander von Humboldt? Learn all about the polymath who helped shape our understanding of the natural world. This August, the SciFri Book Club is reading The Invention of ...

Andrea Wulf’s The Invention of Nature surpassed my expectations. And I had high expectations. Wulf’s book, which focuses on the travels and writings of Alexander von Humboldt, was ranked by Science ...

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Lester del Rey wore 1950s-style horn-rimmed glasses, an unruly billy-goat beard, and his silver hair brushed back above a big forehead. He liberally dispensed cards that said: Lester del Rey, Expert.