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 ...
Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...
Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made ...
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 ...
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 ...
Pasi Tuunainen grew up observing the academic career of his researcher father and decided that he would never become one ...
The term “Indian” pertains to the entire Indian subcontinent, which stretches from Burma to present-day Afghanistan and from ...
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.
At just 23, a young chemist solved a deadly medical problem, then vanished from credit and history, leaving behind a cure, a ...
Artificial intelligence may rival steam, electricity, and computing—but history suggests its full economic impact will take time ...
Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...
One of the earliest references to sugar we have dates to 510BC, when Emperor Darius I of what was then Persia invaded India.