In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...

Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made ...

Pasi Tuunainen grew up observing the academic career of his researcher father and decided that he would never become one ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

At just 23, a young chemist solved a deadly medical problem, then vanished from credit and history, leaving behind a cure, a ...

The term “Indian” pertains to the entire Indian subcontinent, which stretches from Burma to present-day Afghanistan and from ...

Scientists at the Natural History Museum have pioneered a groundbreaking laser technique capable of determining what ...

Artificial intelligence may rival steam, electricity, and computing—but history suggests its full economic impact will take time ...

The conversion of large-scale, complex mass spectrometry data into meaningful structural insights through ChemEcho, a machine learning embedding method, published in August by investigators at ...

By Tisaranee Gunasekara Time will say nothing but I told you so...” WH Auden (If I Could Tell You) Martin Wickramasinghe was ...

After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...