Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing...

Margaret was a huge personality, an optimist with a great sense of humour. She advocated for gender equality, universal health access, and the welf...

One of the most important psychologists alive today tells the story of the transformation of modern psychology through the lens of his own career a...

When celebrating his 106th birthday, Dr Bill Frankland was asked why he had lived to such an age. His reply was quite straightforward, 'Because I h...

By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority...

_______________ 'Beguiling ... I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on ...

''We never train women in Sydney,'' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology....

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.Except When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, peo...