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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
A harrowing eye surgery may have given the impressionist painter the ability to see UV light.
A reclusive expert of 19th-century photography laid the foundation for green chemistry solutions emerging today.
How a simple operation—castrating little boys—produced the greatest singers the world has ever known.
With their creeping, bloodsucking ways, bedbugs continue to mock human superiority.
How a bloody gun duel between two doctors in Transylvania sparked a frenzy of outrage—and helped create the American Medical Association.
How a feisty, suicidal Nobel laureate infuriated both Hitler and Stalin, and stalled cancer research for 50 years along the way.
