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Mark your calendars! The third book in my Trailblazers of Women in STEM series for Pen & Sword Books, A History of Women in Mathematics,...

In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In...

If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and...

Reading the life of Harriet Brooks is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There's that same idyllic,...

Many Hopes Lie Buried Here. These words, etched on the tomb of Inez Prosser (~1895-1934) express an entire constellation of grief and...

The life of Catherine de Parthenay (1554–1631) was dominated by national religious conflict and her decision to take a pivotal role of...

After a life spent studying our closest relatives, and arguing passionately for their protection and that of the wider planet of which...

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...

Evolution is great. As an explanatory idea, as a process governing biology, from just about any aspect you care to consider it,...

For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is "What Is Energy?" Sure, we have a standard answer - "The ability to do work"...

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...

To the uninitiated, there seems a dizzying amount of carnage wrapped up in advancing biological knowledge. Every scrap of information...

In the opening days of the Nazi attack on France, a Jewish engineer took his family aside and instructed them on how to commit suicide by...

One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other...

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair...

There was a time, during the Golden Age of Railroads, when the name of the small Welsh town of Dowlais was stamped on iron rails that ran...

Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open air facilities, with features...

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

If you’ve been reading my Women in Science column here and there over the last decade, you’ll have been subjected to my intermittent...