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The sub-atomic world as we learn about it in high school is a seemingly settled and staid affair - you have protons and neutrons in the...

Two scientists. Two crystallographers. Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her,...

In the middle of the Twentieth Century, if you wanted to know about the bleeding edge of modern chemical spectroscopy, Gladys Anslow...

In 1941, the first patent was filed for a hot new product that stood to revolutionize the electronics field - it was a capacitor that...

In its externals the life of Emma Carr (1880-1972) bears many similarities to that of fellow physicist Margaret Maltby (1860-1944). Both...

An American woman hoping to make her way in science in the 19th century carried with her the knowledge that, as soon as she had a child...

Untold billions of miles away, a star explodes, and violently ejects barrages of hydrogen and helium atoms into the universe at speeds...

Sometimes, simplicity dooms.  In World War I, chlorine gas hailed down upon the British soldiers trudging through their semi-lives in the...

When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...

It is a well-known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent and necessary is inversely...

The list of Quaker women who made fundamental contributions to the science of crystallography while in prison is a short one.  In fact,...

Everybody needs love, but for some the striving after it so dominates their every action and decision that it becomes impossible to ever...

In 1983, one of the great pillars of modern physics was cemented in place when CERN announced the discovery of a group of particles that...

In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Émilie du Châtelet’s French translation of...

Content Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert Einstein much.  If this is a problem for you, if part of your...

In popular mythology, the 1687 publication of Newton’s Principia was the culminating moment when one human told the world how the...

We have been living without the menace of Scarlet Fever for a solid century now, and in that time it has devolved from a creature of...

Every day, we subject our eyes to a nearly ceaseless barrage of screen-mediated experiences - phones, computers, televisions, tablets,...

Carbon. Its astounding versatility is matched only by our total and historic complacency in the face of its wonders. “Carbon? Whatever...

To fully appreciate Lise Meitner, you have to first forget everything you learned about the atom in high school. Forget that the nucleus...