Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works

The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board was an impatient young ...
The Scientist

The History and Evolution of PCR

In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...
Austin American-Statesman

Texan salutes grandfather, Polish scientist who discovered key to high tech

A slender thread of memory connects a Texas Hill Country man to a discovery that transformed modern technology. In 1916, Fred Schmidt’s grandfather, Jan Czochralski (1885-1953), a largely self-taught ...
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Baby monitors, satellites and the moon: Telling history of Jersey Shore's Black scientists

Tyrone Laws is speaking to educators, students and community members about the innovations that came from Black scientists, including his neighbors in what once was South Belmar, now Lake Como. They ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Richard Somerville on the long history of climate change science

There are some scientists whose contributions to the stores of human knowledge are so well-known that they have become household names. I don’t think it’s going too far out on a limb to say that ...