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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...

The nineteenth century saw Great Britain expanding vociferously into new markets, extending its influence, for better or worse, into...

Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to...

There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who...

A square, who works as a lawyer in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, sits down with his hexagonal grandson: Taking nine squares,...

The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the...

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...

The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter.  She was...

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...

It is a long standing saying* that the pantheon of primatology is essentially the Justice League of America, with Jane Goodall as...

In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn't you at all.  Bacteria, though by mass they only make up about two percent of a human...

Pondering the Enlightenment, one's thoughts tend to turn Frenchwards.  The verbal barbs of Voltaire, the neuroses of Rousseau, the...

The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries...

Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...

One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of...

Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale.  Frogs are going extinct, according to the most...

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States; within half a century 7,000 American...

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

On a lonely stretch of Florida swamp road, in the year 1920, a model T Ford with no headlights and two hastily replaced tires is trying...