Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

An eminent molecular physicist and path-breaking crystallographer, an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of science, an early...

This book reveals the life, drama and mystery surrounding the creator of groundbreaking inventions. It posthumously found renewed fame as the subje...

For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research a...

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. ...

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedis lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a ...

In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we mus...

In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his pe...

Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some o...

Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world's medical establish...