A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

How are you celebrating Ada Lovelace Day this year? If you’re a science and technology major you may be making plans. The rest of us have much to learn about this lady. It may pique the interest of ...

Many fields of science have a foundational document: Isaac Newton’s Principia for the physics of classical mechanics, for example, or Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species for evolutionary biology ...