In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...

PATRICIA FARA‘s epic history of science ranges from the astronomers of ancient Babylon to today’s geneticists and particle physicists. But it is no ordinary account of how scientific knowledge has ...

I WAS saddened to hear of the death last month of Harriet, the giant tortoise that Charles Darwin reputedly collected from the Galapagos Islands in 1835. She died in the Australia Zoo in Beerwah, ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...