All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output ...

In this wonderful book, Lane (Power, Sex, Suicide), a biochemist at University College London, asks an intriguing and simple question: what were the great biological inventions that led to Earth as we ...

Catalog of exhibit of the same name at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 15, 2011 - January 8, 2012. The museum was the only venue for the exhibition, which was organized by Claire Perry, ...

She never earned a PhD — but she earned a Nobel Prize. Born shortly after World War I, Gertrude Elion revolutionized modern medicine with the invention of lifesaving drugs, from leukemia treatments to ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...