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| 1948 |
| | | US zoologist Alfred Charles Kinsey publishes some unexpected findings in his Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male | |
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| 1948 |
| | | In the title of a new book US mathematician Norbert Wiener popularizes a term that he has coined, Cybernetics | |
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| 1948 |
| | | British astronomer Fred Hoyle puts forward a 'steady-state' theory of the universe, in which matter is continually created | |
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| 1948 |
| | | A 200-inch telescope goes into service at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California | |
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| c. 1948 |
| | | US psychologist B.F. Skinner trains laboratory rats to use their brains in his 'Skinnner box' | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Exceptional Scythian remains are found in frozen burial mounds at Pazyryk, in the Altai region of Siberia | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The first Soviet atomic bomb, called by the Americans Joe One, is successfully tested in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees make use of the polarized light of the sun to calculate direction | |
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| 1949 |
| | | French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes Elementary Structures of Kinship | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The technique of radiocarbon dating is developed by US chemist Willard Libby | |
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