The genius of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring lay in pulling together already existing data from many areas and synthesizing it to create the first coherent account of the effects persistent chemicals had on the environment.

Harnessing nature to deliver us from drought.

Eleanor Roosevelt thanks a chemical engineering firm in Philadelphia for manufacturing water for the king and queen of England on their visit to the United States.

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.