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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 March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for...

It is early August in the year 1794, and jails, choked with the enemies of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee for Public Safety,...

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...

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...

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

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

You want to see tough? Take a look at this picture of Marie Curie near life’s end. It’s not an image you see a lot, but there is no...

On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with...

It's April of 1732, and the hot ticket in Bologna is not an opera, a play, or a beheading, but rather that most mundane of things: a...

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...

In the late eighteenth century, it would have been not at all unusual to run into a woman on the streets of New York wearing upon her...

If you're a scientist, and you've lived long enough, there's a good chance that you'll see your life's work overwritten and forgotten in...

Radioactivity is a great thing. Terrible, as they say, but great. The medical applications of radioactively tagged molecules, as Rosalyn...

Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology (though not, as we learned from our time...

In a corner of a room, tucked unostentatiously away from the notice of the raving hordes of just barely contained school children using...

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

There is hardly a name in science more encrusted with bad faith generalizations and well-meaning but ahistorical hagiography than that of...

Biological classification took a while to figure itself out. For centuries, it was a mish-mash of Aristotelian sentiments and cabinets...