Sciences Press (科学出版社; 1954 - present) is the largest publisher of scientific and technical works in the People's Republic of China. Originally founded through the merger of the Longmen United Book Company with the Chinese Academy of Science's Compilation and Translation Bureau and operated as part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the company today still maintains a very strong affiliation with that institution. Its publications span the entire sciences, from human evolution to cosmology, physics, computer science, and medicine, and even into the humanities and social sciences (such as works on the history of technology).