Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air ...

The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the ...

One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnifi...

Reveals some of the thrilling developments that have transformed biology since the 1960s.  Highlights the challenges ahead for biologists but sugge...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Gene tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Siddhartha Mukherjee''s ...

Newly available in paperback, Dan Fagin's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution is environmental reporting at...

Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. He has broadened our basic understanding of the universe and his theoretical work on black holes and the ...

Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe, Wonders of the Solar Sys...

Campfire conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace on people and nature based on his travel in the Malay archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and...

Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered highly dangerous? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Siby...

Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein a...