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Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...

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...

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...

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...

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

Clara Barton resided on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have...

Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild, it promotes cancer. But it...

One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. ...

The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are such clever at...

Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed...

I wish to say farewell to all those who thought of me as a friend, to all those who were kind to me, assuring them all that the deep...

Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn't love penicillin? It's on everybody's shortlist of the most important things we've discovered...

There are few stories in the history of Women in Science with as much innate and compelling drama as that of the Edinburgh Seven, which...

Lavinia Waterhouse (1809–1890) lived at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the twenty-first-century mind, have no business...

Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of...

It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the...

Imagine it is the twelfth century, and you have woken up experiencing some trouble breathing. Fortunately, you have the financial...

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of...

For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognised in their time and...