Citizen scientists vs injurious insects

19 May 2015 by Rupert Baker

What’s the connection between massive, modern citizen scientist initiatives such as the Zooniverse, and the Victorian craze for observing bugs…

Time travel through wormholes

21 November 2012 by Keith Moore

This is getting ridiculous; I must stop writing about insects, it’s my third blog post in a row. One of…

15 November 2012 by Keith Moore

The recent Royal Society wiki edit-a-thon on ‘Women in Science’ was very successful in improving the records of 20th century scientists…

9 September 2010 by Jo McManus

The delicate little picture of the insect currently on the Centre for History of Science home page is a detail…